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Will Weaver's __Memory Boy__ kept me on edge throughout the book until the end. There was excitement and humor on every page, but there was an air of suspense that hung over the whole story. When I picked this book up, just from the cover I could tell it was going to be different. This book may be short, but the way Weaver tells the story, the book comes alive and it seems much longer than the actual length. Keep in mind that when you pick this book up, you're in for a wild ride on the //Ali Princess.//

I have never been particularly interested in volcanoes, but this book gave me a whole new outlook on them and what they have the potential to do. I did not particularly like the author's style in this book because he kept going back to past events that were important, but it made it harder to concentrate on the present events in the book. Like I was saying, this book features volcanoes and in __Memory Boy__ a chain of volcanic eruptions in the western United States that blow so much ash that everyone needs to wear surgical masks to go outside. Luckily, this has never happened in real life but the book was very realistic and if ever such and eruption did occur the result could be much the same.

After the natural disaster mentioned before, cities are being evacuated, there is a shortage of food so prices have rocketed up, houses are being destroyed and plundered, and everything is covered in ash. People are doing the most outrageous things to stay alive and it is common to be jumped by desperate people. In Minneapolis, the Newell family is hoping to escape to their cabin up north using a wild contraption called the //Ali Princess// built by Miles Newell. This family will have to make their way to safety and it will not be easy, not just because of physical issues but they will also have to become closer mentally as a family.

Miles is the main character, and his parents used to call him memory boy when he was a kid because he had such a good memory. Now at sixteen he is an amazing mechanic. Miles has a twelve-year-old sister named Sarah who I didn't like because she was very annoying throughout the story. Miles has a mother named Natalie or Nat and his father is a jazz musician. This book is great because the way the story is told made me feel like I was right there with the characters. It also kept me on edge because of all the danger involved. I would recommend this book because it is a thrilling story of life or death. It made me wonder what might happen if I had to go through something like that and whether or not I would survive.