Name: Cold Calls
ISBN: 9780544541214

Charles Benoit

In the vein of the teen suspense classics "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "The Face on the Milk Carton," "Cold Calls" is a chilling thriller, an unsettling mystery, and a provocative exploration of bullying, culpability, and the cost of keeping secrets.

Cold Calls

Lynn Braden

"I know your secret." In Cold Calls, Eric, Fatima, and Shelly all start getting calls from someone with a computer altered voice that blackmails each of them into bullying a particular student in each of their schools. The final event is to be dumping macaroni and cheese onto the head of each student during lunch on a particular Thursday. After running across each other in a weekend antibullying class, the three decide to find out who is making them ruin their lives and why. 
This is a very good mystery, giving the reader insight into the personalities of each character, while sharing why each is being blackmailed. However, the characters are difficult to like because of what has happened in their pasts and how they each handled their situations.

While on suspension, Shelly, Eric, and Fatima, who have nothing else in common, try to identify and stop the person who blackmailed each of them by phone to perform very specific acts of bullying at their high schools.

Sara 

My friend lent me her copy of this book, and it was AWESOME!! 
I love mystery, and the ending of this book made me wish there was going to be a sequel to it-but apparently Charles Benoit does not do sequels, even though he TOTALLY SHOULD!

Cold Calls

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