![]() ![]() ![]() Narrator Scotty Weems is a good athlete but not interested in translating his talents on the court to other aspects of life in high school. And, while there is a jock, an emo/goth kid and a kid with a bad boy reputation, I think the similarities end there, which is what makes this book all the more interesting. My husband read the Trapped in one sitting and said he thought that the kids in the book were pretty similar to the kids in the great John Hughes movie from our high school years, The Breakfast Club. While I have never been trapped in a freezing cold building without electricity and I have not been a teenager in a couple of decades, there was never a moment in Trapped when I paused because the action or dialog stood out as being unrealistic or invented just to move the story along. ![]() ![]() The novel buries you." Every step of the way, Northrop's plot developments seem perfectly rational and reasonable and, especially, believable. Not just any blizzard, though, this is the "mother of all blizzards." As Baggott so perfectly says of the novel, "Michael Northrop's tension in Trapped builds the way the snow does, accumulating in drifts, blocking window, casting the story into darkness. Narrated by sophomore Scotty Weems, Trapped is the tale of seven students stuck inside their high school during an blizzard. ![]()
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