Amy, number seven

by Marilyn Kaye

Paper Book, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

820

Publication

New York : Bantam Books, c1998.

Description

Amy Candler knows she's different. In fact, she's perfect -- a perfect twelve-year-old girl.Overnight, she can see and hear things from awesome distances; she can tumble, twist, and turn like a top gymnast; and she knows the answer to every question her teachers ask.But Amy doesn't have the answer to the mystery of her past.All she knows is that her recurring nightmare seems very real.That her crescent-shaped birthmark wasn't there yesterday.That a stranger is taking photos of her.That her mother is acting weird.That someone is sending her anonymous warnings to keep her talents a secret.Slowly Amy is piecing together her identity, but she'd better hurry.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Omrythea

Amy Candler knows she is different. She is a perfect twelve year old, too perfect in fact. Amazed and boggled by her perfect athletic ability, her perfect vision and hearing, she begins to wonder about her past and the father she has never met. Why doesn’t she have a birth certificate, and why

are mysterious people always following her and taking her picture?

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LibraryThing member Colefree224

I really enjoyed this series. I read most of them in middle school and in college I wanted to finish reading them but couldn't find them anywhere. I emailed the author asking if she knew where I could buy them. My reply? The last 6 or so books in the series!! I was so excited about this. I loved

these books and still reread them every once in a while.

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LibraryThing member TheLibraryhag

Amy is just a normal healthy kid until she puberty kicks then. Then, instead of getting pimples or hair armpits, she gets strong and super smart. She is fast and can do the most complicated math problems in the blink of an eye. She thinks all this is pretty cool until she starts getting notes

warning her not to show her talents. And when her mother starts freaking out over everything Amy does, Amy knows something is up. She and her friends are determined what is different about Amy.

I read this because I have really enjoyed Marilyn Kaye's Gifted series. This book is for a slightly younger crowd but I really enjoyed it. There are creepy people trying to help Amy and even creepier people trying to see if she is one of an experiment they thought had failed. Totally suitable for tweens and teens who like a quick slightly adventureous read. I can't wait to see what happens next. This made a great lunch time read, btw.

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LibraryThing member Evalangui

This was actually the first book I read in English, which tells you it's pretty simple language wise (I had to look up the word "zillion" only and I was armed with highschool English, which I was failing) but the story is engaging and, although in retrospect the plot is not that original, I still

believe it's well written. I read as much of the series as I could find later on and had to stop for lack of availability around book 12.

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