In the Classroom: Reading Aloud When You Reach Me

I can still hear a bunch of my students outside my room packing up to go home, debating and mulling over just what is happening in this remarkable book.  I thought I'd be able to finish reading it to them today, but ran out of time.  Had to stop at page 170 with 36 pages left.  But they are wildly curious, many stayed in the room with me for a while after school,  to speculate, to surmise, to guess. One figured it out, but doesn't know it yet.  Others think they know, but don't.

I read this...