The Beasties

Even as an adult I enjoyed this book. There were parts that got my heart to beating fast and a few times I even jumped when someone started talking to me or I heard a loud noise. Towards the end of the book I thought the book got a bit long and started to trail off a bit differently than I had expected but non-the-less it was a great read. I encouraged my husband to read it too because I found it to be so engrossing. He too really enjoyed it and for years we have both tried to remember the name or author so we could buy it to reread and let our teenager enjoy. Finally I came across it and ordered it right away.

The Beasties is a great book with great twisTs and turns in the plot. It's about a 12 year old boy named Doug and his sister, Carlotte. Carlotte goes and joins the Beasties, but Doug stays behind. When he tries to,"join", they [the beasties] don't let him join , but they eventually do. Lots of exciting things happen during the middle, which include a battle between the Beasties and the humans. Also at the end, Doug lets the Beastie Fingers take his eye so that she can lead the Beasties to victory. That is all for now, thank you.

This was the first book I even read of william sleator. After reading this, I decided to try to read all the sleator books. I liked the way he writes especially his descriptions of the creatures.

I think that William Sleator is a very zestfull writer. William Sleator wrote a book about animals that lived underground. These animals are called " Beasties." The Things I like about this book are, the way he discribed the setting and character's. He used some very disciptive words like, "very precocious" as he discribed a character named Colette. I also liked the way the story was well organized. The author did an excellent job of creating suspense. The only things I did not like about this storywas, the ending and the way the loggers treated the beasties. The book is unreal, but the end was not what I thought it was going to be.The loggers cut down trees where the beasties lived. I would recommend this book to any teen, kid, or adult who likes action packed and suspensful books. This book is for all ages. What I learned is " it's not whats on the outside, it's what's on the inside." In this story the kids became friends with these life-forms, then so can we. HAVE FUN READING!

Sleator did an excelent job on this book. I love the whole thing. The looks of the beasties were so creative and unlike anything else. He made me fell as if i was right there in the story. The feelings and emotions of these characters wereso great and you can really see how he put so much thought into each character. I really loved this book.