

Trapped illustrates how people can be perceived differently, depending on the situation. He fears the robbery will affect his position on the school’s basketball team. Scotty is torn between obeying invisible authority and acquiescing to the group’s cafeteria pilferage plan. Canned peaches in heavy syrup, pudding, and half pints of white and chocolate milk are among their finds. The students endure dead cell phone reception sleeping on cold, hard tile floors using bathrooms with soon-to-be frozen pipes and forty-degree hallways.Īs their nightmare continues, the clan brazenly decides to break into the cafeteria to quench their hunger.

Jason spends the limited daylight in the Industrial Arts room working on his go-kart project named, Flammenwerfer (German for flamethrower). Scotty describes Pete as a normal sophomore who wasn’t super hip or incredibly smart. Two of Scotty’s friends, Pete Dubois and Jason Gillispie are among the stranded. I guess this was when we started keeping secrets,” says Scotty. “Any sharing or trading would be done among friends. The students raid their lockers, searching for items to assuage their entrapment, including sweatshirts, gym clothes, and snack-packs of Oreos. Sophomore Scotty Weems narrates the group’s ordeal. When will they be found? How will they persevere? Will they all be found alive? That’s the premise of Trapped, written by Young Adult author, Michael Northrop. Seven students (five sophomore boys and two freshman girls) waiting for rides home, soon realize that no one is coming to their rescue.

A relentless Tuesday morning snowfall prompts an early dismissal at Tattawa Regional High School in a rural New England town.
