![]() most (if not all) of the chapters end on a cliffhanger, making the book hard to put down. Juhas had recommended the book to me).Īs a writer, one of the things I look for is why I like a book, and this book has many lessons to offer. For the time period, I don't recall that being done often.Īnother reason I believe I forgot about Susan was that I had strongly identified with Peter as a child (and that was probably the reason Mr. In my opinion, her gender wasn't all that important to the story, but it's interesting to note that Coville chose to write from a girl's perspective for a science fiction story. ![]() One of the things I'd forgotten was that this book is written from the perspective of a sixth grade girl named Susan. I reread this book dozens of times as a kid, but reread it for the first time in more than a decade over the last couple of nights. This book single-handedly made me fall in love with science fiction when I was in fourth grade (thanks, Mr. ![]()
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