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The Fever Kindle Edition

by Diane Hoh (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
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Trapped in the hospital with a raging fever, a teenager fears for her life
The Twelvetrees hospital is ancient and eerie, with no modern comforts. Stricken by a mysterious fever, Duffy has spent two nights trapped in her lonely hospital bed. When she wakes from her fog, her memories of the last two days are tattered. But what she does remember could prove more dangerous than the illness that brought her there. No one will tell her anything about her sickness. The nurses are cold, and her doctor is a strange young man with an earring and big, goofy sneakers. Duffy doesn’t trust any of them. Did she really hear that terrifying scraping sound last night, or was it just a fever-dream? As her memories return, Duffy worries that she may have witnessed a murder, and that the killer is coming to keep her quiet. It will take more than medicine for her to escape this hospital alive. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Diane Hoh including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
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  1. Reading age
    12 - 18 years
  2. Print length
    166 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Grade level
    7 - 12
  5. Publisher
    Open Road Media Teen & Tween
  6. Publication date
    March 27, 2012
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  9. Enhanced typesetting
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About the Author

Diane Hoh (b. 1937) is a bestselling author of young adult fiction. Born in Warren, Pennsylvania, Hoh began her first novel, Loving That O’Connor Boy (1985),after seeing an ad in a publishing trade magazine requesting submissions for a line of young adult fiction. After contributing novels to two popular series, Cheerleaders and the Girls of Canby Hall, Hoh found great success writing thrillers, beginning with Funhouse (1990), a Point Horror novel that became a national bestseller. Following its success, Hoh created the Nightmare Hall series, whose twenty-nine installments chronicle a university plagued by dark secrets, and the seven-volume Med Center series, about the challenges and mysteries in a Massachusetts hospital. In 1998, Hoh had a runaway hit with Titanic: The Long Night and Remembering the Titanic, a pair of novels about two couples’ escape from the doomed ocean liner. She now lives and writes in Austin.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007GQXH7Y
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Teen & Tween (March 27, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 27, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3195 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 166 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 25 ratings

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4.1 out of 5 stars
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Heather Hogan
5.0 out of 5 stars FeVeR
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2007
Hello Reader,
This review is about the book "Fever". It is written by Diane Hoh. The book Fever is a very exciting book full of mysterious people and suspenseful action. The book "Fever" focuses on a single girl named Duffy and the strange fever that seems to overwhelm her whole body. Things only get worse when she hears noises down the hall, and let me tell you they are not happy ones. But hey, she has a high fever it might all be some strange hallucination right? Well if waking up from a "dream" includes bruises and a fear of staying alone at night the yes. I think this book is very interesting because it gives you little facts and completely changes the subject leaving you wanting more.

I think that it is a great book because it surprises you and it never gives away anything. I was really glad that there was an interesting book like this. I recommend this book to all the people who wish to read something fascinating. I also recommend this book to everyone who likes mystery and who likes to figure out strange events or people. I really liked this book and I am sure you will too!

Haydee Marmolejo
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Carrie Ann
4.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2021
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Just finished reading this book which was recommended to me by my teenage niece. It was a quick read and kept you guessing as to who was responsible for committing the dastardly deeds against the main character. The book is something young teenagers will enjoy reading.
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Donna C
4.0 out of 5 stars Fairly creepy.
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2015
At first I thought THE FEVER was going to center around a mysterious illness but it really doesn’t. It lends a hand to the greater plot but the larger issue going on is that someone is trying to kill Duffy but no one will believe her because they think she’s delirious from being sick. She’s not a character I was really able to feel anything for because she was a bit whiny and bratty and snipped at people when she didn’t get her way. Toward the end her anger was understandable because no one was believing her but it would have helped if she were a little less snippy with people at the beginning to bring in the sympathy.

Once things started happening to her it did pull me a bit more into the story and I did want to find out who was doing these things to her. I never doubted her, though, and I would have liked to. I like it when, in horror, you as a reader start second-guessing everything that’s happening because it’s written in a way that lends itself to that kind of reading doubt. There was a hint of that here at the beginning but it really wasn’t reinforced so I never questioned whether what was happening to Duffy was real or not. Instead of really blurring the lines between delusion and reality Hoh relied on derpy people around her to continue questioning the bratty sick kid that complains a lot. And really she didn’t complain all that much. She whined, sure, but most of her illness-related complaints were legitimate; she was just a brat when relaying them.

It bothers me when crucial evidence isn’t taken to the appropriate authorities as a means of fueling a blow-out for an ending. Like when Duffy had her friend run her medication to her brother’s lab and have them tested, and they come back reaffirming her very big concerns about what was in them. Instead of going to the doctors with that very real lab paperwork plus the two outside witnesses that can attest to that information and stopping everything in its tracks Duffy sits on it and nearly gets herself killed in the inevitable showdown at the end. It’s kind of annoying.

The culprit ended up being someone routinely involved with the story but it was done in a way that if you think about the situation for more than a second there would have been no way the issue would have been pinned on this person to begin with to start fueling this murder spree. Not a chance. But every story needs a villain and this person was it.

I mean overall it was okay. It was a more fleshed out story and even at the end, when some rather horrible news was revealed, I did feel bad for Duffy when she reacted to it. It wrapped up rather nicely and there was only a fade-to-black moment after the villain was thwarted by Duffy so it delivered in that regard. I think the story could have been better if it didn’t rely on stupid characters to carry the story. It was a good story and one that could have been so much more substantial than what it was but I guess it’s good enough for old school YA horror. It’s definitely one of the better books in that it had me guessing and trying to figure out what was going on. But I didn’t feel a part of the story, I didn’t feel involved myself and I would have liked to have been.

3.5
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Gillian
5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 1999
I think this is one of Diane Hoh's better books (so far). I was really interested in the characters, and Duffy has spunk :). I'm still a little confused by the ending, though. The parts I did like were when Duffy was attacked in the shower, and when the brake on her wheel chair gave out and sent her flying down the hill...a book worth reading!
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jaxmom
4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Imagery
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2008
The suspense, creativity, and irony of the novel The Fever, by Diane Hoh, will make any reader anxious to continue reading. Duffy Quin is a faultless teenager. She succeeds in school, she has high self-esteem, and she doesn't have any problem making friends. Who would have thought that she would get an illness that turns her into a lunatic?
Duffy is robbed of her strength and is left helpless in her hospital bed. A fever rages through her body when she realizes something wrong. "What am I doing? Everyone is right about me." She thought in disgust. "I am losing it." (141).
Between the drama of her friends, the fear that someone is about to murder her, and the fact that she can't get out of her hospital bed even to take a shower, Duffy Quin has enough to worry about. Is someone really out to get her, or is her outrageous fever just getting the best of her?
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Linda
4.0 out of 5 stars Someone Very SICK is Stalking Duffy in the Hospital..
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2004
I took away 1 star because the story is set in a hospital, and hospitals are so boring.OK.
Other than that, The Fever is an exciting mystery / suspense.
Duffy is in hospital to recover from her deathly fever but instead someone is trying to kill her!!!!And it's pretty hard for her to convince people that there is a psychopath after her when everyone believes she is simply delusional from her sickness.
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Alison Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars Arrived on time
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 5, 2021
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Good read
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Priscilla Wiredu
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic dark plot!
Reviewed in Canada on March 16, 2016
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Great book! Diane Hoh knows her stuff! I wish I new more of the culprit's fate at the end, and if Duffy ever really did have the flu or what triggered her odd behaviour in the beginning!

I really love Hoh, too bad she doesn't write anymore :{
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