Describe a part of the book that made you feel something strongly (i.e. something that made you cry, laugh, get really angry, etc.).
The book is Space Case by Stuart Gibbs, the author of the Spy School series. The book is a mystery on the moon where the main character, Dashiell, has to solve the mystery and find the person that murdered Dr. Holtz before his great discovery. As he is uncovering a mystery he encounters with the only adult that is willing to help him because all other adults think that his ideas are nonsense and that Dr. Holtz got killed by accident. At the end after a lot of investigation and multiple misleads, Dashiell and his newly arrived friend Kira discover who the murderer was (I am not going to says his or her name for those of you who want to read it) and realizes at the end that the only person that was willing to help him was only known to him and Dr. Holtz, the person who's name was Zan Perfonic was not real or at least nobody else could see her. That happens because Zan was not human, she was an extra-terrestrial who came from another galaxy and had traveled there with her thought which made only the chosen people able to see her. At that moment at the start of the last chapter of the story, she is discovered and that's when I felt very weird because I realized that I was wrong during the whole story about her and about many others who I misplace as suspects or innocent. And that is the component, I think that makes Stuart Gibbs' story suspense and mystery until the very end of the book, during the whole book he misleads us or he makes us think something even though it's not true. So after reading the book I thought about the power that authors had to be able to manipulate us.
-Nicolas, Grade 7, Vassal Lane Upper School
