Paris Pan Takes the Dare by Cynthea Liu

Liu, Cynthea Paris Pan Takes the Dare, 248 p. Putnam (Penguin), 2009. Content: G. First Paris gets dragged to a tiny no place in the middle of nowhere. She’s made two friends, but they aren’t exactly kind to her or to each other. The boy who has kind of caught her eye, seems to be labeled “dork” by everyone in school and the girl who lives closest to her is off the chart on the loser scale according to her new “friends”. But Paris has even bigger problems – her new group has a secret tradition that all 13 year olds have to spend a night out in the woods – where a girl was purported to have disappeared years ago – and that spot is the spooky old woods behind Paris’ own house! For once a book where the kids aren’t too mean, the message comes through loud and clear and it’s pretty fun to read. MS – OPTIONAL. Cindy, Library Teacher.