I am NOT Scared

Book: I AM NOT SCARED(Io Non Ho Paura)
Author: Niccolo Ammaniti
Pages:230
Genre: Mystery

We all have childhood friends which we do stupid "stuff" with. And so does Michele, and his 4 members of the group of which one was his 8year-old sister Maria. Everyday the friends would race up a new hill with their bikes or without and whoever losses, meaning they come last, they have get punished.

Kids from the group:

•  Michele(main character, 10 years old)
• Maria(his sister, 8years old)
• Antonio(Micheles best friend)
• Teschio(leader of the group)
• Fat girl(nobody likes her)

These friends live in a small town in Italy where it seems as if the city was dead. The adults are always closed in the houses, while the kids play outside. The group of 5 explore new hills everyday, however one day they noticed a hill they had never been up before, the hill where the old man lived. But this old man wasn't just any old man, it was the old man which fed his pigs meat from any intruder. The group leader dared the others to go to the house, and so they did. As they arrived to the house, there was a farm in the backyard, which is where Michele had to pass through. As he entered the farmhouse alone, rats ran out, the bad smell nearly caused him to faint, and the roof was about to fall, he had reached the other side of the house where he had to jump out of, as he climbed on the tree, the branch broke and BOOM he fell into a whole, but wait, wasn't it soppoust to be hard? He fell into a dark hole, it smelled like animal leftovers, he took the lighter out of his pocket looked around and felt something, looked back, and screamed like a girl, a high pitched "iiii". There was a hand, a human hand follwed by the body, but it wasn't moving, it was dead. "Hello? Why are you here??" -No response.The body was white, thin and looked just like a skeleton, as fast as he could Michele climbed out of the hole, as he heard a voice from the bottom of the hole, "w..a..t..e..r". Water? The thing behind him spoke, however it was only a whisper. "Are you coming Michele?" his friends were calling him. He walked back and never told the friends anything. He came home that night, and dreamed about what that was in the hole..

From what I have read, the book sounds really good, it is exciting and mysterious at the same time.. was that thing in the hole alive? could it have been a kidnapped person? I wonder if Michele will tell anyone or keep it a secret. My dad says this book can be scary at times, I can't wait for it to get even better!