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Train (Point)
by Diane Hoh
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Point (1992-09)
ISBN: 0590456407
EAN: 9780590456401
Paperback: 10 pages
Reading Level: Young Adult
SKU: 6217
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Binding: Softcover. Condition: Very Good.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
On a cross-country tour with her friends, Hannah learns that on the train with them is the coffin of Frog, a boy from their high school whom they ridiculed and taunted and who died a sudden and horrible death.
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Customer Reviews
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A Boring Read
Rating  (1)
Date: 2006-01-11
1 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Halfway through this book I wanted to scream stop The Train I want to get off.The book was so boring it revoles around Hannah and her friends from Parker High.They are going on a tour from chicago to San Francisco by Train(hence the name of the book).Yet while on the train in the baggage department they discover a coffin.After reading the tag on the coffin the find out that it holds the body of a classmate of theirs named Roger.None of them liked Roger they all called him Frog.Then they all begin discussing how they treated Roger badly and they start feeling guilty about it.Soon bad things start happening and people are getting hurt.Hannah starts wondering if Frog is really dead?So she and her friends set out to find out.
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Bit Unrealistic but Stays on the Tracks of an Enjoyable Read
Rating  (4)
Date: 2004-12-26
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Hannah and her other high school friends are part of the school's field trip to San Francisco travelling by train from Chicago. Kerry who needs to put on makeup every ten minutes and change clothes every hour is enraged when the conductor takes her vastly too large carry on to the baggage car from her whipped boyfriend who was struggling getting it onto the train. When she goes to get it she finds the coffin of a recently deceased class member is also going to San Francisco. Even though she, Hannah and the rest of the gang had treated the kid they had forced the nick name of Frog onto like a social leper and made his life miserable she throws a tantrum about having to share the train with his corpse which much to her disgust gets her nowhere. When the train enters its first tunnel and the Frog's girlfriend is found nearly strangled to death the terror begins for the gang of friends. Hannah seems to be of special interest to the murderer but she won't tell her friends why. It seems that Frog is not happily staying in his coffin and she and her friends are in grave danger.
It was an enjoyable quick read and is ideal to read if you have to kill a few hours somewhere, maybe even at the train station. You do have to overlook that surely after an attempted murder the train would be stopped at the next town and all suspects removed to an interview room with the local police but obviously they have to stay on the train for the story to happen. I've caught the train from Chicago to San Francisco and it doesn't stop for a half a day in Denver either, it stops at places to refuel yes but not a whole morning and there's no way it would delay hundreds of passengers to wait for one teenager to reappear or not. Also why they would expect the corpse of Frog to be in the very same coffin they rescued Hannah from seems to defy logic. If you can overlook these things and accept the work as pure fiction then this is a very enjoyable read.
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The Train by Diane Hoh
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-03-14
This is a great book but you have to be ready for it. i went into it thinking that it would somr murder mystery (one of my favorite types of books) but i was totally suprised. it is a very scary, sad and emotional book. Hannah, the main character, is a very distressed and scared girl because trains scare her a lot, especially when going across country. But after her and her friend, Kerry, discover the coffin of their formeer peer whom they nicknamed Frog in the baggae car, everyone starts confessing to the horrible things that they did to him. and, it's not who you expect. that's all i'm going to say because i dont want to give away the ending. happy reading!
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The only Hoh book I have read. Yet!!!!
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-02-23
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is the only Hoh book I have read yet.When hannah goes on a trip with her friends to San Franciso they never expected the horrors that were in store for them.I would recommend this book for someone likes twists.
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Amazing!.....
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-10-21
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Hannah, Mack, Kerry, Lewis, and Jean Marie are all a group of best friends on a school trip to California by train. Soon after boarding, Hannah discovers that the coffin of Frog Drummond -- a school outcast who was killed in a car accident -- is on board. After telling her friends the news, they all confess to tormenting him; soon their lives are in danger when a deranged stalker, who they believe to be Frog himself, shatter their plans."The Train" by Diane Hoh was outstanding! I'm a thriller fanatic, and out of all of the books I've read so far, this is the best! From the first chapter to the last, it's suspenseful. The storyline and setting is unique, in numerous ways. For one, in most thrillers, life-threatening events occur, but there usually isn't an actual death or murder. There was in this book, which turned out to be sad, because it was one of the main characters, and after reading, you get attached and feel like you've lost a friend! Secondly, most books don't completely shock you at the end. You usually suspect everyone to a certain extent. But, the killer in "The Train" was totally unexpected! That is what I call the perfect thriller-chiller! Enjoy! Also recommended:
a.) "Double Date" by Sinclair Smith
b.) "The Boy Next Door" by Sinclair Smith
c.) "Starstruck" by Richie Tankersley Cusick
d.) All books by Joan Lowery Nixon
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