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The Body of Christopher Creed is a 2001 young adult novel written by Carol Plum-Ucci. It's plot revolves around a high school misfit and punchbag who suddenly disappears causing all of his fellow students and citizens to come together and speculate the incident. Affecting the protaginist Torey Adams greatly, the incident leads him to eventually uncovering the secrets and lies of the town. The Body of Christopher Creed has also won the Michael L Printz Honor Book Award.

Plot
The novel begins with protagonist Victor “Torey” Adams in his dormroom debating whether he should have stationed himself in Steepleton or that things were beginning to get better now that he could lose all thoughts and start a fresh new school year at an anonymous school in New Jersey. The novel begins with him talking about his switch from rothborne, his old school to a boarding school, his reasons why, and soon begins to argue with himself about the fact that he should be able to forget previous occurrences. Despite the best weighing out the worst at his new school, his memory of the "incident" soon returns when one of the school’s fellow students Leo, a "weird" character in the novel, barges into torey’s dormroom. Fictional character Leo starts up a conversation, leaving torey feeling very uncomfortable. A scuffle breaks out once Leo tries to find out what torey is supposedly hiding in his computer, which leads to the introduction of chris creed. At later instances, Chris is said to have left an email to the principal, which hints to him either running away or committing suicide. Torey becomes interested in the email when he and other friends are mentioned in it. Unfortunately, his friends aren't on the same level as him. Later at school his friends leandra, Alex, ryan and Renee start to carry on and ridicule the disappearance of creed. Torey soon feels relieved once the character Ali McDermott starts to meet with him on the "chris creed" matter. She convinces torey to come over to her house later on because of what she wants to reveal to him. When they meet up, torey gets a glance at ali's issues at home and is soon introduced to her boyfriend Bo Richardson. They soon break into a conversation about Chris creed, which allows Ali to imply that she has had a clear view into Creed's room and that he seems to "hide a diary within the lining of a photo thats surrounded by four other pictures on the wall"(plum-ucci 91). They see that creed hides his diary in the frame to avoid its discovery by his somewhat "nosy" mother(plum-ucci 91). The three sit there gazing into the window of the creed estate making note of the activity taking place within Chris's room. Creed's mother is seen to have been taking some of creeds clothing, search through them, and throws it to the side if unsuccessful. She continues this action as if she were a "diabolical woman on a mission"(plum-ucci 95) according to ali. They are disturbed when her mom is heard moaning while having sex with a man upstairs, angering Bo. He then wanders up the stairs to Quiet them down. They begin to piece together a plan to retrieve the diary by breaking into the creed estate by getting the chris's parents to leave. Fictional character torey heads for the nearest payphone to try to lure creed's parents out from the house, but is unsuccessful.

Character list
Sylvia Creed, an eccentric suspect in the novel who’s accused of causing the death of her son Christopher Creed.

Renee Bowen: Another character who’s introduced to the novel in the fifth chapter; she constantly opens up to sarcasm and jealousy as the novel progresses.

Alex Arrington: Another character in the novel whom Victor chooses to introduce to the story; also has a very aggresive side that is shown a couple of times in the novel.

Leandra: A character who’s widely known around the school; she’s also Victor’s girlfriend.

Mrs. McDermott, ali and Greg McDermott’s mother who is said to have had many different relations with men within the community of steepleton.

Greg McDermott, son of Mrs. Mcdermott and the brother of Ali Mcdermott

Adaptations
Within the past decade The Body of Christopher Creed, after its success on the market, has been spoken of many times to be adapted into many other aspects of the media, such as films and sequels. The Body of Christopher Creed has been and is currently in negotiations to become a film adaptation for Kelsey Grammer's Grammnet Productions, who are meeting with Joanne Weiss to produce a similar but slightly edited plot; a plot which "concerns the disappearance of a high school misfit and the strange effect that it has on it’s town. (D’Works; Dark Daze). Because of the success of the novel, The Body of Christopher Creed, fans have led Plum-Ucci to create a sequel to the novel. According to reliable sources, "you must read the first installment to appreciate the sequel." the book includes an "appearance"from original character, Justin creed, chris's younger brother, and a couple of new characters, with the protagonist being a new character, Mike Marie. (200 Harcourt Publishers Weekly) The Body of Christopher Creed was a success, and it has led Plum-Ucci to refer to the novel several times in her career. Harcourt Publishers Weekly have said that the author " has books that relate to The Body of Christopher creed by displaying a similar string of events (Publishers Weekly).