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

Secrets of the Shopping Mall

Richard Peck

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 3.66 | 413 Users | 60 Reviews

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Title	:	Secrets of the Shopping Mall
Author	:	Richard Peck
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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Ratings: 3.66 From 413 Users | 60 Reviews

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oh man, another random jogged memory. what's great is that i read the description of this book and it didn't ring a bell at all. maybe because i don't remember how they got to the mall, but i remember them at the mall. and the mannequins. and the mannequin war with the skater punks. crazy. not as artsy as the mixed up files, but hey, who didn't wander around a store or mall when they were little and figure out how they could live there. no? when you walked into banks did you take note of the

I used to love this book as a child and thought I'd revisit it due to Richard Peck's recent passing. It's a bit dated (Shaun Cassidy and Jaws 2 anyone?) but it was still fun and there was a bit of crazy imagination to it.Yep, I still enjoyed it, even after all these years. :)

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

Teresa and Barnie flee mean kids at school to live in a shopping mall (only to find there are already people living there). This is a re-read of a book that I enjoyed somewhat as a kid, so I'm maintaining the three star rating. As an adult, I would give it two stars. There's no real tension in it and the mall inhabitants are (at least to an adult's eyes) completely unrealistic. It's not possible that all these people living in the mall would not be noticed by the workers.

Not the best Peck book, but with a title like that, I was interested. I think it was an extension of a short story he wrote, in which a short boy and a tall girl make friends and run away from home to get away from a gang, only to live in a shopping mall where an uptown gang lives indoors and a no-as-uptown gang lives outside the mall and they come to a clash.



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,