I'm struggling with the leadership role the teacher is giving Gooney Bird in the classroom. Gooney seems older and more mature than a second grader. Her voice doesn't ring true.

I also have a hang up that all of the kids needed to come with an animal that started with the letter of their first name, not the sound of their first name and yet Chelsea was told to match the "CH" of her first name to an animal not just the "C".

I have to say this book left me disturbed. How quickly it went bad. How bad it went. The indifference of the scientist who created it. The belief that it was contained.