The Maze Runner, a captivating novel by James Dashner, is an ensnaring story full of creepy, crawly, suspenseful, mysterious moments that will leave readers sprinting head-on into the unknown, desperate to keep up. Thomas, who knows nothing about himself but his name, wakes to find himself in a Box* in a place called the Glade. The Glade is inhabited only by male teenagers who tell him that every thirty days a new boy shows up in the Box. The next day, though, a girl comes to the Glade and delivers a perplexing message. The Gladers have always figured that if they could solve the maze surrounding their camp, then they could find their way home, but the girl's message baffles them. Thomas feels somehow as if he knows the answers to the Gladers' questions, but to tell them he first has to unlock the secrets from his own mind.
The book is bit confusing at the start because the Gladers use a type of slang that you may get tripped up on but the context the words are used in will help you figure it out fairly quickly. Once you get used to it the slang makes you feel like you belong in their crowd, in the book. I think that that is an amazing quality for a book to have because it is so rare and it is VERY difficult for an author to accomplish. By the end of the book I was using the slang in my head!
You can find this book in the school library if it's not already checked out and you can also find it's sequel, The Scorch Trials.
*The Box is an elevator coming from below the Glade
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