Student Book Review:

Other Side of Dark, The

by: Joan Lowery Nixon

Review done by:

Meaghan G.

Grade 6

Van Antwerp Middle School

Niskayuna, NY

If you are looking for a great mysterious or suspenseful book read this review!

I really enjoyed reading The Other Side of Dark. It was about a girl named Stacy who was in a coma for four years and is being forced to try to remember the face on her motherís killer. She was put into a coma when a teen-aged boy came into her home, shot and killed her mother, and shot her in the hip (which caused her to go into a coma). This book has many interesting parts to it, such as when Stacy is in her backyard tree house trying to hide from her motherís murderer. She tried to hide in an old tree house, but the killer was too smart to play games. He forced her out of the tree not knowing that she was armed with a gun. Stacy jumped down out of the tree, landing on him. She pinned him down on the ground and kicked his gun away. She loaded the gun and pointed it at him and then. . . Do you want to know what she choose to do, read the book and find out!!!

I would definitely read this book if I were you! It holds you on the end of your seat, making you want to read more. It is a wonderfully mysterious and frightening book. If you read it you wonít regret it!!


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