The kids thought maybe they didn't like to read before, didn't like books, but this is something they really connected with and that's been very, very cool to see. The coolest part, really, is getting notes from parents and teachers and kids that this is the first book, the first series that some kids have read all the way through on their own.

'I continued screaming through the rest of the speech.'

''Blast the alien scum back to whatever rock they came from. 'My screaming did nothing to stop the drill sergeant 'from continuing his little speech. A blaster, attached to my arm 'where my left hand should be. 'Instead pick me up by the neck, 'just like a bully on TV would, 'Listen maggot, ''I don't know how you got that blaster attached to your arm ''but it's there now and we're going to use it to-' 'the what attached to my what? 'The drill sergeant did not seem interested 'in clearing things up with Mrs. 'The two eyes were attached to a snarling drill sergeant 'who seemed just like the most furious person ever. 'I close my eyes to get my bearings 'and I opened them again to see two angry eyes 'two inches away staring back. I just thought if I thought that was cool when I was a kid, today's kids would think that as well. I thought about how I could go into a video game, how I could go on that show. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. Specifically, there was this game show, it was called 'Nickelodeon Arcade.' So on that show a screen would turn on and those real kids were inside of a real video game and when I saw that my mind just exploded. When I set out to write this book, I wanted to write my favorite book for when I was 10 years old so I actually made a list of all the things I was into at that age, and not surprisingly, one of the things at the top of that list was video games. I'm the author of 'Trapped in a Video Game.'

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