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Gallows Hill (Hardcover)

by Lois Duncan (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (98 customer reviews)

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Grade 7-9. Sarah, 17, has just moved from California to a small Missouri town so that her mother can be near her new boyfriend. The teen reluctantly agrees when handsome, popular Eric asks her to run a fortune-telling booth at the school's Halloween carnival. After her impressive performance, he convinces her to continue telling fortunes off campus. Then Sarah becomes unnerved by the startling visions about other students that she sees in the antique paperweight/crystal ball and begins to have terrifying nightmares. Her classmates, not knowing how to deal with Sarah's unsettling information, label her a witch. Her only friend is another misfit, Charlie. Because both of them are having dreams about the Salem witchcraft trials, Charlie develops a theory that they are living out the results of what happened in past lives in Salem; that many of Sarah's classmates may be former victims of her false accusations seeking revenge. Parts of the plot stretch credibility. That so many students could so easily become convinced that Sarah is a witch seems highly unlikely. Equally hard to accept is the idea that Sarah's mother has been drawn to the town so that Sarah can fulfill some sort of karmic destiny. Charlie's belief in reincarnation causes him to sound like a textbook on Eastern religions. Adult characters merely serve to move the story along. Sarah, however, is an insightful and perceptive character, and readers will identify with her anguish as she tries to deal with the cruelties inflicted on her. Unfortunately, the ending is abrupt and loose ends get tucked in too easily. Despite its weaknesses, this is still an exciting, suspenseful tale that will certainly be welcomed by Duncan's many fans.?Bruce Anne Shook, Mendenhall Middle School, Greensboro, NC
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Gr. 6^-9. Sarah Zoltanne is new in town, dragged from California to Missouri by her mom, who is in love with a local teacher. Sarah is miserable, but after she plays a fortune-teller at a school event, popular Eric Garret enlists her to make fortune-telling a side business. When the fortunes start coming true, and Sarah begins having dreams about the Salem Witch Trials, reality becomes frightening and dangerous. This is a mish-mash that works best when it focuses on the effect Sarah's fortune-telling has on a parochial town, but the plot spins out of control when Sarah and the other kids turn out to be reincarnations of people from the witch trials. Despite the flaws (including a narrow portrait of "Christians" and the inaccurate information that most early Christians believed in reincarnation), the book has one important thing going for it--Duncan writes page-turners. Her well-known knack for mixing the sinister and the supernatural compensates for a lot--and it needs to here. Ilene Cooper
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4.0 out of 5 stars Read This Book, Nov 6 2005
By "nayr7926" (Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gallows Hill (Mass Market Paperback)
This is another amazing book by Lois Duncan. She caught my attention on the first page and I just kept on reading.

This book is basically about a girl named Sarah, who leaves behind her home in California and moves with her mother to a small town in the middle of nowhere. She has to do a hstory paper and meets some interesting people, and learns some things she would rather nt. For the town in which she moved is not as it appears.

Anyways, it is really good, but teh only reason why I gave it 4 stars is that it is so short! Couldn't she make it any longer? Anyways, I'll still read her books, no matter how short they are. You should definitly get this one, along with all her others!

Nayr7926

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5.0 out of 5 stars off to the gallows for that?, Jun 17 2004
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This review is from: Gallows Hill (Mass Market Paperback)
This was really a good book. Lois Duncan used a lot of detail in this book. The plot was simple, and believable. A girl from sunny California who gets stuck in nowhere-ville because of a sudden lapse of judgement from her mother. What really gets to me is how narrow minded the people in book are. In fact, they pissed me off so much with their absurd narrow ideas that I felt like chucking the book across my room, but I couldn't because I was so caught up in the story. Seriously, you're labeled as a "witch" and discriminated on just because you played the role of a gypsy? Who in their right mind would burn down a store just because they sell a different kind of music and different religious ideas? This book seriously made me wonder if people are like that these days
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gallows Hill, Jan 23 2004
By Branson (Cedar Bluffs, NE USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gallows Hill (Mass Market Paperback)
Welcome to Pine Crest, where Sarah Zoltanne has been dragged from sunny California by her momï¿s love for Ted Thompson, a local school teacher. But Sarahï¿s image of the Christian town of Pine Crest soon changes after playing a fortune-telling gypsy at the schoolï¿s Halloween carnival. However, with help from her new friend Charlie she starts to find out that everything thatï¿s happening is for a reason, a very old reason.
What I liked about the book was the connection it had with the Salem Witch Trials. And once I realize just how close that connection was I didnï¿t want to put down the book. However, it also led to why I disliked the book. The citizens of Pine Crest are narrow-minded to new ideas. They even burnt down a bookstore because it sold such books on reincarnation.
In the end, I recommend this book to any Duncan fan or anyone who has read The Crucible. I especially feel itï¿s important to have read The Crucible so you know how the two books tie together, but at the same time you wonï¿t be lost if youï¿ve never read it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars She's Into Superstition, Black Cats, and Voodoo Dolls(?)
This book really touches the heart as it tingles the spine. I felt for heroine Sarah as she is haunted by the memories of young Betty Parris, who triggered the Salem Witch Hunt,... Read more
Published on Aug 18 2003 by Rayna Gorowitz

5.0 out of 5 stars Is It That Deadly?
This book is fun, interesting, and mysterious all at the same time. Sarah Zoltanne, an average teenage girl, moves to a new small town with her mother, future step-father, and his... Read more
Published on April 22 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Witches of Salem
A Review by Tiffany

This story is based on a girl named Sarah who is asked to be a Fortune Teller at the up and coming Halloween Carnival by Eric, she tells him no but he keeps... Read more

Published on April 4 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars The most recent of Duncan's fabulous suspense novels
Gallows Hill is the most recent of Lois Duncan's young adult suspense novels, published just when I was deciding that she was probably never going to write another one. Read more
Published on Mar 25 2003 by Elizabeth Fields

5.0 out of 5 stars No more a witch than you are
This is a creepy understandable modern twist on the seventeenth century Salem witch hunts.
It all starts when Sarah Zoltanne is dragged to a conservative Californian town... Read more
Published on Mar 5 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars FANTASTIC!
The title pretty much describes this book. I just finished reading the book two minutes ago after reading non-stop all day. HIGHLY Recommened.
Published on Dec 29 2002

3.0 out of 5 stars Madam Zoltanne a Witch or Just Different
Gallows hill by Lois Duncan was a mysterious book about a senior by the name of Sarah Zoltanne that is forced to move to a small town where the man of her mother's dreams lives,... Read more
Published on Nov 7 2002 by Alex's BMS Literay Corner

4.0 out of 5 stars Witches, and Witch Haters
The book, Gallows Hill, had a lot of excitement. When I was reading it, I did not put the book down, and I kept on wanting to turn the page so I know what will happen next... Read more
Published on Nov 3 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars Gallows Hill is my favorite book ever.
I have owned this book before and loved it so much I gave it away to a friend who equally loved it as much as I did. I truley loved this book. Read more
Published on Sep 27 2002

3.0 out of 5 stars READ THIS REVIEW
I read gallows hill last year and it was the first lois duncan book i had ever read and now i'm a lois duncan [fan] this book is about a girl sara that is forced to move to pine... Read more
Published on July 15 2002

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