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| Leaving Fishers | 
 enlarge | Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Category: Book
List Price: £3.27
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 2614223
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0689824610
EAN: 9780689824616
ASIN: 0689824610
Publication Date: May 1999
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Ships from the USA - please expect 7 - 21 business days for delivery. cover slightly worn/marked/bent/torn,pages marked,pages slightly bent/worn/torn ACCEPTABLE. Readable but with wear to cover and binding (intact). May contain notes and highlighting or aging paper tanning. We support occupational training for young adults transitioning from state care to independent living.
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Courtesy of Teens Read Too November 16, 2006
This book was truly phenomenal! This is one of those books that you can't put down and can't wait to see what happens next! No matter what religion you are, I think that you can really enjoy this and can fully appreciate the meaning of it.
Dorry is a character that you want to be happy, because in the beginning of the book she isn't! She is a new student at her school because her dad's factory closed down and they had to move so he could get a new job. For the first few weeks of school she is forced to eat by herself and has no one to talk to. But then Angela comes along.
She tells Dorry to come eat lunch with her and her friends. Dorry is then happy. Until she finds out who they really are. Angela and all of her friends are part of a religious group called The Fishers Of Men. Dorry goes to one of their "parties" and really loves it, until she really gets into it. The Fishers Of Men are a cult. Dorry gets so caught up in what she is doing for "church" that her grades drop, she gets only two or three hours of sleep each night, and her parents really begin to worry about her.
How far will she go to please this very demanding cult? Where will it end?
Reviewed by: Taylor Rector
This book is inspirational!!! Read it today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! December 6, 1998
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's is awesome!!!
Realistic and Engaging! May 25, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great story. It's extremely true-to-life, particularly since cults are becoming more rampant nowadays. The dividing line between a zealous Christian and a fanatic is always unclear and the writer does a good job in portraying this conflict, particularly with respect to the minds of the members of the cult. The protaganist's mental confusion and suffering are realistically portrayed, so much so that the frustration and fear is "passed" to the reader, at least to me! This story is to me an addictive psychological thriller which not only entertains, but also teaches us something about extremes in religion and in life.
A Provocative and Terrifying look into Cults April 16, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Leaving Fishers is one of the creepiest, most fascinating books I have read in a long, long time. In this book, Dorry Stephens is a sweet, shy and lonely girl who is new in school and friendless. A group of attractive and well-dressed girls and boys come to her and accept her in their group. Soon she is swept into the Christian sect to which they all belong--the Fishers of Men--and finds herself enjoying the unconditional love and security she find with her new group of friends. However, once she gets more deeply into the group, she finds that she is compromising every aspect of her well being to live up to the expectations of the cult. By the time she realizes this, she has no idea what to do--and she fears the wrath of the group if she disobeys in any way. After I read this, I took a whole new look into religion--both the good and bad aspects of it. I highly recommend this book for the over-12 crowd (lots of complex and mature subject matter). It will cause you to think long and hard about the things a lonely person will do for friends and how once you've been brainwashed into doing something, it is nearly impossible to stop.
A balanced, tense look at cults and Christianity March 18, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In LEAVING FISHERS, Margaret Peterson Haddix takes a lonely, insecure, and likable girl and slowly draws her under the influence of the Fishers of Men, a religious cult whose members believe the group is the only escape from eternal damnation. Haddix' novel is well-crafted, slowly leading the reader through Dorry's experience with the Fishers, subtly transforming the group from one which welcomes her with open arms and promises of God's love to one which makes increasingly unreasonable demands on her, all of which carry the threat of an afterlife in hell if she fails. The book is ultimately a very balanced look at the fine line between faith and fanaticism, between cults and Christianity.
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