The+Body+of+Christopher+Creed

This Wiki is about the YA novel, //The Body of Christopher Creed,// by Carol Plum-Ucci. It is about a teenaged boy in a small town and doing what he knows is right. Christopher Creed is the “weird” kid in school, and one day he shows up missing. The town goes crazy. Is Christopher dead? Did he kill himself? Did his strict military mom do something to him? The story is told through Torey’s point of view, and he is telling it to the reader through a diary type thing. Torey is the typical all-american kid, but when this happens he starts to see his friends, family, and his life in general in a whole new light. The burning question is, what happened to Chris Creed?

This book is great for young adolescents because there is a character everyone can relate to, and it makes you question everything you know about society in general. Young adolescents are beginning to see themselves and how they relate to the world, and this book does a great job demonstrating that. It is just a gripping story that has so many great things going for it, and it is also a wonderfully gripping read.


 * This book is great for literature because it has many literary devices, strong characters and plot points. It is just a great story in general.
 * This book is good for social studies/history because the book challenges society. I think that books that question society generally deliver a strong message. It also uses Native Americans as a plot/setting enhancer.
 * This book can be taught in science because it talks a small amount about decomposing bodies and what happens to them.

APA Citation: Plum-Ucci C. (2001). //The body of christopher creed//. New York: