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Secrets of the Shopping Mall

Richard Peck

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

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Title	:	Secrets of the Shopping Mall
Author	:	Richard Peck
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	November 1st 1989 by Yearling (first published 1978)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Adventure. Contemporary. Fantasy. Mystery

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Trying to escape the vicious King Kobra gang and a troubled life at home, eighth graders Barnie and Teresa flee the city. With only four dollars between them, they hop a bus, hoping to find a new life at the end of the line. Destination: Paradise Park. But Paradise Park turns out to be a cement-covered suburban shopping mall--not quite the paradise they had hoped for.

With no money and no home to retum to, they are forced to stay. And paradise park takes them in--in more ways than one. Barnie and Teresa spend their days and nights in the climate-controlled consumer paradise of a large department store. And just when they think they can live there unnoticed forever, Teresa and Barnie find that even Paradise Park has its secrets. Even in the dead of night, they are far from alone....

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Original Title:	Secrets of the Shopping Mall
ISBN:	0440402700 (ISBN13: 9780440402701)
Edition Language:	English

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Of all the authors I've met, Richard Peck is the only one I personally disliked. I remember reading this book as a kid. Two middle schoolers run away and live at the shopping mall -- a fairly interesting scenario I guess -- some of the pop culture references date it (Battlestar Galactica is mentioned, and it's not the recent version!) and it is not a hopeful story. Reading it as an adult I can see Richard Peck's lovely attitudes toward schools and the people who work for them shining through,

I found this book lying around my house a few months ago and I thought I'd make it less lonely and add it to my bookshelf keeping in mind that I would eventually get to it in the future but still it didn't seem like it fitted with the type of books that I usually read and enjoy and also the synopsis didn't really strike me as very interesting and so I never thought about picking it up.However, recently, I made a TBR jar of all the books that I have on my bookshelf and that I haven't read yet and

This was a favorite of mine as a child, and I just reread it for probably the fourth or fifth time. The story is about two loners, Teresa and Barnie, who forge an unlikely friendship when they find themselves the target of a bully's rage. Afraid of retribution, they hop on a bus and run away, only to end up at a local shopping mall. The two decide to hide in a fancy department store after the mall closes and spend the night sneaking around, eating out of the deli area, and avoiding the night

Not my favorite Richard Peck book, but a great concept. Two runaway teens make a home for themselves in the shopping mall, blending in with the shoppers by day and hiding out from the security guards at night. Then they discover that they're not the only ones. . . As I said, it's not my favorite Richard Peck, but there's a delicious Luna-like character in it!

One of my favorite books from my early teen years.I still imagine scenes from it most times I'm in the mall.

This has a loose, funky vibe that is very specific to late 70s-early 80s YA novels and TV series (After School Specials, Eight is Enough, etc), which often works to its favor. And I appreciated the specific mentions of pop culture icons and movies of the time - like Shaun Cassidy and The Warriors.As satire and social commentary, it's only moderately successful -- often because the characters and their voices are strange and off-putting. And I can't say the ending is very satisfying, because as a

As a child, my favorite genre was Kids Getting Up To Mischief In Places Where Kids Probably Should Not Be: children in museums/libraries/shopping malls overnight, runnin' around and causin' trouble, occasionally encountering easily-solved mysteries. (See also: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library.)