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Title: Scarecrow
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Author: Richie Tankersley Cusick
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Comments for Scarecrow

• Posted on 2009-05-30
  It will keep you guessing to the very end...
  
  This book definitely has some gloomy and sadistic happenings that will freak you out. You won't have a clue what's really been going on until the very end. I gave it 4 stars because there are a few things that I wish didn't happen in the story and because I'm mad with one of the characters because they are clearly very INSANE! Anyhow, it was a very good read.
  
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• Posted on 2008-07-04
  Creepy Book
  
  I have to admit that I came to Amazon looking for this particular book because I had started reading it but never finished it. I found it in a used bookstore. I'm so glad I found it because I've been wanting to finish it. This book is the creepiest book I've ever (began) reading. I can't wait to see how the book further develops! And I can't read many of the reviews because I'm afraid that they will give away the ending!
  
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• Posted on 2004-11-28
  A great book for 17 and up
  
  I found this book in the Young Adult section of my library, but when I started reading it, I wondered why it was there, because it seemed like it was more for an older audience. The main characters in the story are adults (not old, though), and it wasn't written like many of the other books I have read by Richie Tankersley Cusick. However, I found myself getting into the story and really liking it, even though it didn't have romance in it (at first). This book is actually creepy and gory (somewhat), and scary, and a little sad.
  
  The main character, whose husband and son died, and she is still really sad about it, for some reason is at a farmhouse in the Ozarks in the middle of nowhere (I think she crashed her car)with a strange family. The little six-year-old girl can tell the future, a young boy is treated terribly by his mother for no reason (when you find out the reason, you'll be very surprised!), and the father seems controlling. Every year the family makes scarecrows, but he orders them all to be burned at the end of the year, which the main character finds very strange. There is also the mother's sweet, much younger sister, who is very normal and wants to get out into the real world, where she has never been (the family really is cut off from all other people), but her sister forbids it. When it is time for all of the scarecrows to be burned, the younger sister hides hers and doesn't burn it, because she so desperately wants a guy friend.
  
  The main character begins to really get freaked out when she realizes that the family does not want her to leave their home, and she knows she is in danger.
  
  This book is very well written, with great detail. All of the elements are woven together neatly, and the ending will amaze you. All of the answers to why this family is so strange will reveal themselves. I strongly recommend this book, also if you have strong, um, morals (?) this might not be a good book for you.
  
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• Posted on 2003-10-23
  Great book!
  
  This is a VERY good book. Will keep you in suspense until the very end. I've read almost all of Tankersley's books, but this one shocked me the most.
  The characters are well done and the storyline is fantastic. This book is a lot more mature than her other books. Anyone who likes anything else that she's written definitely needs to read this one.
  
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• Posted on 2003-02-07
  Never What you Would Expect
  
  This is a tale for all time. A true suspense novel that keeps you guessing until the very end and still surprises you is almost unheard of. This one may even give you nightmares.

  Pamela in stranded in the Ozarks for an unknow amount of time, but trust me, the sooner she is out of the place the better. Trying to find out what keeps her up at night in fear will probably keep you up at night out of fear as well.
  

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