User:FlaviusFerry/Final Exam (book)

Final Exam is the second novel written by A. Bates, published by Scholastic Corporation under their Point Horror imprint in 1990.

Plot
Kelly is a good mechanic and drives an old Thunderbird she rehabbed herself. She has a cat named Grease and a very jealous sister. She is also a senior in high school and it’s finals week. She has seven exams for school and then the ultimate test--for her life.

In this book, the reader knows more than the character does because we get short chapters from an unknown person’s viewpoint that show someone’s increasing agitation. So we know this person is behind all the pranks that suddenly start going terribly wrong for Kelly.

But Kelly has no idea why any of it is happening. The pranks get worse and everyone is acting oddly. It might be senioritis, or it might be guilty knowledge. Kelly has no way of knowing which but she has no choice. She has to at least pass her finals to graduate and someone is making that almost impossible.

Editions

 * ISBN 0-590-43291-5 (paperback, 1990)
 * ISBN 978-1-939483-08-9 (eBook)

Columbine High School
When the Columbine High School massacre occurred April 1999, many people remembered and comment on the cover for Final Exam, which was published by Scholastic Corporation in 1990. The artwork shows a high school and the tag line reads, “If you fail.....you’ll just die”. Scholastic provided the artwork, but asked A. Bates to select the name of the high school. She chose Columbine High. Fans speculated that she had some prescient warning of what was going to happen nine years later.