I Know What You Did Last Summer

by Lois Duncan

Book Overview

Four teens fight to outsmart a killer who intends to avenge a young boy's death in this suspenseful thriller that inspired the classic horror film. After a party, four teens are in a hit-and-run... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031609899X
• ISBN13: 9780316098991
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10

Customer Reviews

Paid to much

This book was only originally sold at 5 dollars, brand new. I paid about that for it used, with pen writing all throughout it. I am actually disappointed. However, The content was well.

Ben Willis Strikes Again!!!

My name is Tucker and this book is very scary and a very good book. I couldn't put it down once I started reading it was one of the best books I have ever read! Please buy this book and you'll love it I promise it will make you love scary books even if you don't like them. If you buy this book you won't be sorry you will absolutley love this book I promise.

I know what you did last summer, Anna's review

I loved this book; it's my favorite book I've read so far. It was very exciting, and I didn't know what was going to happen next. The most exciting part was when, Collie was in Helen's apartment when she came into it. He was going to try to kill her. She ran into her bathroom and he started to take off the hinges of the door, so she jumped out her second story window. Julie, Ray, Barry, and Helen where driving way too fast and were paying too little attention to the road, so that's when it happened. That's when all their nightmares started. They could never erase what they did, but they could own up to it. Now a year later, Julie gets a note with only one sentence on it, "I know what you did last summer." He knows what they did and now he wants revenge! I think everybody would like this book, adults, teenagers, and children. But it does have a few hard words in it so I think children who are 11 and over would like it more, because they would understand it more

One of my all time favorite books

First of all I wanted to say that this book is nothing like the movie. It had the same basic plot, but thats about it. As many movies that are based on books, the book is a lot better. This story is about four teens who accidentely hit a kid riding his bike while they were drunk and speeding, they did as much as they could to cover up the murder, but one year later one of the teens gets a note that says "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER." Next, the person that wrote the note starts blackmailing them by leaving newspaper articles about the hit and run, and pictures of them standing by the kid after the acident. Eventually he begins threatening them. The teens know that they need to find out who knows what they did, before they are either found out by police, or even worse killed by the blackmailer. This book is very suspenseful and it has a lot of twists in the plot. Its a must read for fans of any book fan.

Summertime

I've read several Lois Duncan books and "I Know What You Did Last Summer" is by far the most surprising and suspenseful of them all. I have once watched the movie "I Know What You Did Last Summer" a while back and remember it to be hardly interesting. The book version however, was much more appealing to the mind than the movie was. The book has the same basic as the movie did with the same four main characters, Julie, Helen, Ray and Barry. It starts out the same with a car accident with a stranger in the beginning that comes back to haunt them the next summer, with threats and later into more killings and suspense than the movie had to offer. The entire story leaves you hanging on the tip of your chair from suspense at its finest. The ending was different from what I had originally expected and I'm sure other readers of this book feel the same. I recommend all mystery/horror and Lois Duncan readers to read this book if they have the time and interest in this type of book or are a fan of Lois Duncan's workings. I rate this book with 5 stars because of my high level of interest and concern throughout the entire book.

GREAT BOOK!!!!!

THIS BOOK IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ, IT KEPT ME ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT AND THERE WAS SO MANY CLIFFHANGERS, I CAN'T EVEN COUNT THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SUGGEST THIS BOOK TO EVERYONE!!! (EVEN PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE TO READ)