Back in October, I wrote a review of The Resisters. I recommended the book to a few students, and just yesterday I received a well-detailed, 3-page summary of the story by a student who is a brand-new fan (thanks, Gage!). This is the beginning of what he wrote:
The book Resisters is about a boy named Ethan. He won a soccer game and he had a party. After the party was over, Emma (his sister) and Ethan were cleaning up and Emma had to go inside.
So while Ethan was by himself cleaning up, a milk truck came, and the people inside it kidnapped Ethan. One was a boy, big and buff, and the other was a girl, with antennae hair.
Their names were Felix and Madison. While they were in the truck, Madison told Ethan about why they took him and they told him about this thing called the Cha’zar. The Cha’zar is a collective where when you hit puberty they start collecting what you know in your life.
When they got to a cave they had Ethan put on a mosquito suit to fight robots. When they were fighting, Ethan left Felix and Madison and went back to Santa Blanca….
In the morning Ethan woke up in his bed. He thought last night was a dream, but he took his shirt off and then he saw all the bruises he got from fighting. He went downstairs for breakfast. His parents asked about last night because they knew about the collective.
A couple minutes later, some cops came in and took Ethan. They took him to his coach’s office. His coach was part of the collective, so Ethan had to be careful that he didn’t give away any information, ’cause it would go right to the Cha’zar. His coach asked him questions. Ethan didn’t answer them. Since he didn’t they took him and sent him to a school for mental kids.
Ethan got on a bus. … Ethan remembered that Madison said that the windows [of the bus] make you see good things but the outside was bad. And that they have sleeping gases in the vents.
Ethan broke the window and saw the outside; then the gases came out. Ethan was lucky that he jumped out the window. Then Felix and Madison came when some robots did. They defeated all the robots, then got Ethan’s [mosquito] suit.
Then they went to a secret sanctuary underground….
I was excited to get this great summary; I love it when students find books they can really get into, and this is definitely a fun book. As I said before, it reads like a video game and is some pretty cool science fiction. I hope this description entices others (maybe even you) to read the book, too.
The sequel to The Resisters, Sterling Squadron, is coming out in April — be on the lookout for it!
