the beasties (week 3)

Title: the beasties
Author's name: William Sleator
# of pages: 198

When Doug and Colette was out of sight from the logger site they drew what details and everything they could remember about the machines, houses, and weapons. They made a final draft of both and threw it down to the family (the beasties) so that they exactly knew where to go on their mission. That night Doug was pretty sure that Colette would sneak out and down to the family, and she did. After some time Doug found some courage to sneak down in the tunnels and get a hint of what they are doing. He walked through the tunnels and got to the operation room and saw one of the loggers on the table, about to get his arm cut off. He continued through and followed a high noise of the family. They were taking all kinds of stuff down from a trapdoor in the logging site. He was hiding so no one could see him and he watch until they were finished and closed the trapdoor. Fingers (Colette's beastie friend) could smell Doug and out of nowhere two beasties hold his arms. They dragged him to a room and the queen came to give some orders on what should happen to him. She ordered that they should kill him, because he could not be trusted and he sneaked in to their tunnels during a mission. Fingers had to take to the operation room. Halfway they stopped and got something to drink. Doug tried whatever he could to make Fingers trust him. Doug had to answer some question that was about the family and he had to guess right. He got the most important on right, which most other people did not understand. Fingers really started believe in him and started to think if he should let him go or not. She demanded two smaller beasties to not tell anyone about what she was about to do. Fingers silently took Doug and Colette up to the trapdoor behind their house and let them go home. Doug and Colette went to bed as before they knew it and slept rapidly. The next day there were three men in the living room sitting by the table; it was the men from the logging site. Doug and Colette got very nervous. The three men insisted that Doug and Colette had something to do with all their broken machineries. Demanded them to them who did all of it. Right when Doug was about to say who it was Mrs. Sloan (Like a nanny) said that it was the beasties and she knew how to get in their tunnels.

This book is just getting better and better and I can’t stop reading more and more. I think this book could be for everybody so far and if you like what you have read, then don’t hesitate to read it. Thumbs up all the way!