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Well, as you may know, I haven't written in this blog for more than a week... And you must have been waiting sooo~ much,,,, (not really...) 
I hope you didn't forget the title of the book in that short period of time,,,


Midnighters 
By Scott Westerfeld


As you may know, I read the whole book. And it's one of the best books I have read. But it creeps me out. One of those scary stories. But it's not the "monsters" and "goblins" or whatnot. There aren't even goblins in this story. It's the unreality that creeps me out. And the darklings. Did I mention the darklings? I don't really remember, so I'm just going to "re-explain" them. Darklings are the reason of the secret hour. The twenty-fifth hour. Darklings can't live in daylight. They would die. They're like wild animals, only that can live in the dark, with no electricity, nothing. They go far back from the time before Einstein, before Thomas Edison, just as far as you can think. And there always was a 25th hour, from the beginning of the darklings' species. But they were feriocious. They tried to destroy everything in their way. And there were many different types of darklings. Flying darklings, snakey-darklings, tiger-looking-darklings.. and whatever you can imagine. And there's only one thing that the darklings are scared of and hate -- unfamiliar technology. New types of metal, any metal that a darkling or a midnighter didn't touch, anything with technology -- they were scared of. 
Jessica Day is the only person who doesn't know who she is. Now, don't take the previous sentence literally; then it wouldn't make any sense. Of course she knows her name is Jessica Day and she lives in Bixby and.... you get the point. Each midnighter has a job. Not a job, but a power. The main characters in the story (just to remind you) are Jessica Day (duh...), Rex, Dess, and Melissa. There are many other "secondary" characters, but these are the main. 
Here is a chart of who has which power.
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| Name              | Power        | Description                                                                             |
                                                                                                                                                  
| Jessica Day   | Unknown-- | Not specified                                                                          |
                                                                                                                                                  
| Rex                  | Seer           | can see things far away; can see the focus                        |
                                                                                                                                                  
|Dess                 | Polymath   | math prodigy; can easily find any quantity of anything       |                   |                          |                    |                                                                       without thinking |
                                                                                                                                                   
| Melissa           | Mindcaster | can read people's minds; can also change people's        |
|                         |                      |                                                                              minds         |
                                                                                                                                                   
| Jonathan         | Acrobat      | can "defy" gravity; can "fly"                                                   |
                                                                                                                                                   


I just made it without putting a real chart in, so I hope it's understandable. 


You might have a lot of questions...
 The focus is when something was contacted with a midnighter or a darkling, it looks different than the rest of the world. If you yourself is a midnighter, you also get the focus, too. Apparently, not everyone can see the focus. Rex just happens to be one of those people. So he can easily find where the darklings are and went by looking for the focus. He is also helpful when you are looking for some metal that the darklings didn't touch. Only Rex could determine that.
 Polymath might confuse you. Dess is like the high-school Einstein of math. She has a power of counting. That might sound silly, of COURSE everyone can count! But not the way she does. Think of it like this. You know the game guess how many in the jar, right? Where the teacher or parent or adult or whoever puts jellybeans, candy corn, or any type of candy in a jar and you try to guess how many are in (they're usually in the hundreds, two hundreds...) the jar. Well, Dess has the power that when she just looks at it, she doesn't need to think; she just says,"two hundred fifty four," which is the exact amount in the jar. 
That's why she is a poly math. And, she can do the opposite. If you ask her to make a thirteen letter word, she automatically comes up with one. "Deliciousness."
Thirteen letter words are handy. Darklings are scared of thirteen. The number thirteen; anything that has to do with thirteen. And in order to make a new not-touched-by-a-darkling metal work to scare a darkling away, you have to name it. Specifically. With thirteen letters. And here's how the  job of making a weapon for the darklings work: Rex finds a metal without focus, gives it to Dess, who automatically names the metal.
And the coolest thing is, Bixby, Oklahoma has exactly thirteen letters. B-I-X-B-Y-O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A... thirteen letters.


            And on to the last person-- Melissa. She can read people's minds. She can taste their anger, smell their bravery, sense the danger. She can read what people are thinking of. If she goes too near someone, the volume goes up. That means physical contact can really harm her... somehow... 
             This is mentioned in the book. In some part, I forget. I tried looking for it, but no luck. But I'll try to write what is similar to what was in the book (because it's more easy to understand after you read this...) ::::
          Think of it like this. Everyone is like a different radio, each person with a different channel and style. And I can hear all of those radios. If I go near one radio, the volume increases. If I have physical contact, then, the volume just goes too high.
         Understand? Hopefully... Well, maybe you understood even before...


And for Jonathan, he can fly. Not FLY fly, but like a flying squirrel. By the way, flying squirrels are real. And you probably know that they don't really fly, they just glide. Just long, far jumps that look like flying, but you can't actually stay in the air for long. In midnight, gravity stops with the time. So, he can actually feel the "no gravity" thing while others can't. He's an acrobat.


Well, that's it for today...
Hope you learned a lot about the characters!!!!!!