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media type="custom" key="7960842"The Dark Side Of No Where By: Neal Shusterman
If you like mystery type books, or books that take time to figure out, you would love The Dark Side of No Where. The Dark Side of No Where is always leaving you hanging. There is always an unexpected detail in the chapters that you wouldn't expect to happen.

Some of the odd things that take place are: Jason and his monthly shots that he doesn't no why he gets them. or the fact that Mr.Grant, the janitor gives Jason something you wouldn't regularly get from a janitor...maybe even why his friend, Ethan dies unexpectedly due to his appendix bursting. Then Jason is curious why Ethan's parents are the lest bit sad about their son dying. He soon finds out why that is. Are his friends at school more than they appear to be?

 Since Jason receives a "gift" from Mr.Grant, he was asked to meet Mr.Grant at a place called Old Town, where there is nothing but an abandoned, old house. Jason disobeys Mr.Grant's orders by showing Paula, Jason's friend, the "gift" that he got. Paula and Jason decide to visit Old Town before he went to meet Mr.Grant, so that Jason can be familiar with the surroundings. They find some weird things.Like a message carved into a piece of wood and a picture of a peer at Jason and Paula's school hanging on one of the cracked walls. Things turn more odd after their visit at the house.

 Jason is now confused on why all of these odd things are happening. He soon finds out the truth from his father and peers from school what really is going on. Will Jason ever find out who he really is? Or will he never find out the truth?

The setting of this book is mostly at Old Town, when secrets are revealed and mysteries are solved. Jason and Paula are the main characters. Jason is a very curious and smart boy. He doesn't really have a life like his friends, since his parents aren't exactly normal. They will never get mad at a single thing Jason does, which causes him to be mad. Jason gets mad since he doesn't really have punishments for things that he should. Are his parents really like this or is there a reason why they act weird? Paula on the other hand is adventureus. She likes to explore and wants to know the truth about everything. Are Jason and Paula a good team? Or will nothing work out in the end?

 I would say that the author's style is different and unique. He doesn't let you know everything at first, but at the end, you can see the foreshadowing clues that he has made earlier on in the book.

Read The Dark Side of No Where to find out secrets that are untold and find out what really happened to Ethan...