The lambkins Rj #19

Dear Mrs.Zrihen,

I am reading the book called The Lambkins by Eve Bunting. First of all I can tell you that it was really a cliffhanger. I was so consumed with it that I finished it in about 5 hours; I couldn't stop reading. This why I would recommend this book to everyone I know. The passage that I really liked was on page 180: 

"I felt in my pocket for John's stone and thought of the angel, flying away from us, flying upward from Earth to heaven.’Thank you,' I whispered.

'You can go home now.'

'We all can go home.'"

I think that this passage is important to the reader because it tells of how Kyle, the protagonist, believed that the person before him, John, was protecting him and the others( Tanya,Lulu,Mac, and Pippy, a dog) which were all protagonists. Also I picked this passage because it made the ending sound that there was supposed to be more to it, however no.

Some strategies I used before reading were to skim and scan for text features and to predict what was going to happen in the story. During reading I confirmed my predictions and reread. When I finished I recommended it to someone and asked myself questions about the book. 

The genre is science because it has stuff that is science related that will never happen. The characters are mentioned above and the antagonist is Mrs. Shepherd, the foils are really Kyle's teacher and nobody else. The setting was at Mrs. Shepherd’s house day and night with sunny conditions. The conflict is that Mrs. Shepherd injected the people into tiny people and they have to get out before she keeps them there. This is a Man vs. Man conflict and it's external.

The tone the author had was like being trapped because of the characters being captured. I felt pretty excited during reading this book. The moral is not to trust everybody at the exact moment. Theme is companionship because the tiny people stayed together. This book was first person because I read the words I, me, myself, mine. This story was organized by chronological/ time order.

Eve Bunting wrote this book to entertain the reader and she was only one-sided.

I would rate this book 10/10 because it was very exciting.

Sincerely, Juan 702