Sunday, September 05, 2004
Interstellar Pig by William Sleator
Interstellar Pig is the story of a bay named Barney and the three strange neighbours at his beach cottage. The neighbours are strange because they appear to charm everyone they meet, they lie about why they want to access to Barney's house, and they use good words (complicated, higher level words) but sometimes use them inappropriately.
Barney has already stumbled on a mystery attached to the house regarding a sea captain and a dying (or murdered!) castaway. Do the neighbours know about a hidden treasure?
In his enthusiasm for hanging out with luscious Zena and finding out more about the mystery, Barney gets sucked into a dangerous game that may mean the end of the world. I was happy to see that logic was a big help to Barney at the end.
I passed this book onto a 12 year old girl who liked it more than I did.
Barney has already stumbled on a mystery attached to the house regarding a sea captain and a dying (or murdered!) castaway. Do the neighbours know about a hidden treasure?
In his enthusiasm for hanging out with luscious Zena and finding out more about the mystery, Barney gets sucked into a dangerous game that may mean the end of the world. I was happy to see that logic was a big help to Barney at the end.
I passed this book onto a 12 year old girl who liked it more than I did.
# posted by JJ @ 4:20 PM 
