i am a student at ashley high school and i know elijah very well and i think that the book is a awesome book and Ms.mc coy is a wounderful teacher and that all this should stop beacuse there is no point to this...yes there was a other books you could read....this book is being described as a horrible book and its nothing like that....this book doesn't even have pictures...i just wish this would end...its pointless!! this book is sooooo wounderful.....GET OVER IT!!!!!!! ITS STUPID!! ~a student in ms.Mc Coy's second block