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Do the Creepy Thing (Paperback)

by Graham Joyce (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (6 Jul 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571230350
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571230358
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 403,515 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Fourteen-year-old Caz and her friend Lucy do the Creepy Thing. It's a bizarre version of 'chicken'. They break into houses while folk are asleep, challenging each other to 'do a creepy'. To 'do a creepy' you approach a sleeping person in the dark, in the dead of night, putting your nose one inch away from the sleeper's face for a count of fifteen seconds. One night, Caz breaks into the house of Sara Metherall, a lonely old woman shunned by the community. Lucy challenges Caz to do the Creepy Thing. Caz rises to the challenge. She creeps, she counts. But just before she completes the count of fifteen the old woman opens her eyes and clamps Caz's wrist with a cold silver bracelet. The next morning the bracelet has disappeared, but left in its place a tattoo. A tattoo that holds a curse. While her life disintegrates around her, Caz has to find a way of lifting that curse. Or returning it to the place it came from...

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4.0 out of 5 stars not creepy but uplifting, 15 May 2007
Although the title is the name of the game Caz plays - where she and her friend Lucy sneak into people's houses while they are sleeping and go nose-to-nose with them for fifteen seconds - it's not really about the game. And although there are creepy elements in the book, it's not really about them either.

At the beginning of the book, Caz is caught by an old lady when doing the Creepy Thing, and the old lady clamps a bracelet onto Caz's arm, which promptly disappears, leaving a glowing tattoo that Caz tries in vain to erase. But then Caz realises that the bracelet has given her empathy - she can see how people are feeling and their real reasons for behaving the way they do. It's also responsible for creating a spooky old woman who turns up now and then to scare Caz.

If she is to get rid of the bracelet mark, Caz has to change something about herself - and THAT is the real story here. It's about people learning how to be kinder; how to see beneath the surface, and as such is a lovely story about Caz and her development into a more compassionate person. Kindness doesn't have to mean weakness.
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