First note: This was written for fifth through ninth grade students, not for an old fogey like me. Writing for kids uses over explanation-- they are still struggling with the basics of what makes life actually work as life, and how even the good can do things they should not have done.
Second note: This was about people who saw a wrong and who moved to try to correct it, even at risk of their own wellbeing. The kids get to be the good guys, not just the troublemakers-- or, in this case, they get to make trouble for the real troublemakers.
Third note: C sharp! No-- sorry-- this is not about music, but it is about keeping the story and the characters in tune with each other and the story. That is tough task when the characters are a fraction of the ages for writers, readers, and people who buy books for kids. Hitting the right pitch for the tone of the story is tough, and here it was done well.
For an adult story it was verbose, overly definitive, and makes things very, very questionable in behavior and in the approach to solving an impossible task.
Good thing it was aimed at the kids, because it was written for the kids and to make them think about how sometimes good people might be backed into a corner and wind up making wrong choices-- and making the kids think is how we (the old fogey crowd) help the kids evolve from an annoyance into the next generation of greatness.
No, it was not perfect.
Yes, questionable choices were made-- and those actions allowed the story to present danger as part of being alive, but something that you do not allow you to shy away from doing the right thing.
A bit intense, and lacking for an adult, but great for the intended age group with the right language used and the hesitant "we've never done this before" way of blazing a new trail.
Nine out of ten, or five out of five rating-- EARNED.
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