One of my favorite books of all time. I was introduced to this book via the 'Penguin Classics' series, the branding of which, for some reason, I was attracted to as a child. I was in second grade the first time I read it, and by fourth grade I'd been through it three or four times. However, in fourth grade we had reading goals, in which we had to read so many approved chapter books by a certain date in order to get credit for the assignment. I told my teacher, Mrs. B**, that I'd read this book before, and she did not believe me. When I insisted she accused me, in front of the entire class, of lying, and didn't let me sit down until I admitted to lying to her. Later she gave me a mercy pass of a 70 for a creative writing assignment in which two guys explore space together, and one of these men eats the other's vomit. She was disgusted. Sent the story home to my mother so that I could get appropriately punished.