You’ll Like It Here (Everybody Does)
Author: Ruth White
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Reviewer: Denise Z.
Summary: Although Meggie Blue seems to be an average sixth-grader she is
abnormally frightened when residents of her small, North Carolina town
become fixated on aliens, and soon she and her family are forced to
flee, making it clear that all is not as it seems.
Review: You’ll Like It Here
(Everybody Does) by Ruth White is an excellent book to introduce to a child
who is interested in science fiction and dystopian novels. White, who is a
Newbery Honor Winner, introduces the reader to the Blue Family. They are aliens
from outer space who live in America until they are questioned by their town.
They are forced to use their extraterrestrial equipment to travel to another
place. The place they happen to travel to seems just like America, except it
lacks certain freedoms and lack of imagination and expression.
A lot of lessons are to be learned from this book, such as
how imagination and creativity are an important part of society and what would
happen if we didn’t have such freedoms to be creative and unique from each
other. There is also a fun dynamic between siblings Meggie Blue and her brother
David and how they each handle going from being in North Carolina to “Fashion
City.”
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