Kaitlin Ward

This was one of the stranger books I have read. I had actually started it last year and never finished it. Today was as good as any day to finish it. Eliza is not very out-going. She and two of her friends go down near the swamp. When her friends leave her to take a picture outside a cave she walks on. Suddenly she finds herself falling through the earth. Eliza is found by a group of people who have fallen down as well. They’ve not been able to find a way out so they have formed a colony.

Eliza learns many things about herself while she is underground. She learns to be more assertive. She learns what true friends are. The friends she had on the surface were not true friends. She learns you can’t just sit back and wait when things take a wrong or bad turn. Sometimes you have to step up and go for what you want or what you know you should do.

For me I felt the ending needed a bit more. It was like watching a movie build up to the end and then you want to know what happened next, but never find out. I will still recommend this book to my students and others who like adventures and young adult books.… (meer)

An interesting story that was both predictable and unexpected. The predictable is in the title and throughout the story, a girl who loves geology and caves, goes against her better judgement and ends up falling through the ground into a system of caves. The unexpected parts, even though it is told in the summary of the book, is meeting others who have also fallen through and are now living in the caves as best they can. There is grossness, romance, wicked fights, and overall survival type adventure. It held my interest even in it's fantastical storyline.… (meer)