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readerrobin's review
3.0
Cute story, first in a series; I previewed this one to see if I it might be right for my daughter this summer, and I am sure she will love it. Fast-paced, funny, short chapters; his would make a great read aloud.
git_r_read's review
4.0
A wonderful book for all ages, especially if you like funny stories about spiders and kids.
calistareads's review
4.0
A Halloween setting for a book about pre-historic spiders that were frozen in a glacier and found in modern times where they melted outside the town of Hamlet, VT. The spiders meet the tattletales club of girls where each of the 7 spiders falls in love with one of the 7 girls. The girls belong to a class at school taught my Mrs Earth - their favorite teacher and there is a boys club called the copycats. The kids are putting on a Halloween pageant.
The story is about working together and the spiders make it a creepy event. The story was engrossing and the poor creepy spiders don't really fit in this new world. It's a good Halloween read.
The story is about working together and the spiders make it a creepy event. The story was engrossing and the poor creepy spiders don't really fit in this new world. It's a good Halloween read.
vermidian's review
2.0
Really, 2 stars is kind of generous, but I enjoyed it as a kid so I gave it the extra star up from the 1.5 stars I think it deserves. Plus, it has to be truly repulsive for me to give a book 1 star.
The plot of the story follows seven spiders, as the title of the book might indicate to you, that were frozen in the ice thousands of years ago during the ice age and defrosted in the modern era to haunt seven elementary school girls. Science proving this is impossible is, of course, ignored.
The characters are boring stereotypes of children and, one by one, these giant white spiders are crushed in various ways and killed, save for one that actually makes it to Harvard where it was originally headed for when it defrosted.
This book is irrational and scientifically impossible, but on the bright side there is diversity in it. I find that impressive in a cheap paperback children's book from the 90s.
On the whole, I would not recommend this book to others. Seriously, there are better books to read.
The plot of the story follows seven spiders, as the title of the book might indicate to you, that were frozen in the ice thousands of years ago during the ice age and defrosted in the modern era to haunt seven elementary school girls. Science proving this is impossible is, of course, ignored.
The characters are boring stereotypes of children and, one by one, these giant white spiders are crushed in various ways and killed, save for one that actually makes it to Harvard where it was originally headed for when it defrosted.
This book is irrational and scientifically impossible, but on the bright side there is diversity in it. I find that impressive in a cheap paperback children's book from the 90s.
On the whole, I would not recommend this book to others. Seriously, there are better books to read.
shopgirl's review
4.0
Very fun, very cute, and very clever, though, to be fair, I don't know that I would enjoy it so much now if I hadn't loved it so dearly as a kiddo. But I did love it dearly as a kid-aroni, so there ya go!
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