| Annie's parents
are dead and she has been living with her Aunt Ruth. Aunt
Ruth's brother, Uncle Marco, also lives there some of the time, but
he travels a lot. Annie works hard for Aunt Ruth who works in
a bank.
Uncle Marco is leaving on
another trip and wants Annie to watch some boxes for him. They
are very heavy, but he puts one in the basement and the other one in
Annie's closet. Uncle Marco swears Annie to secrecy and tells her
she is not to open them.
Annie is just too curious and
opens the box in the basement and finds this ugly looking crab
creature. That night she dreams about the box in her closet
and it looks like a clock. In her dream she learns how to open
the metal box. The next day she opens it and it looks exactly
like it did in her dream. She runs to the basement and finds
out that there isn't just one crab creature, but many
more.
I don't like science fiction
very much, but once you got over the strangeness, it really was a
good book. The plot was much better than the crabby
creatures! |
