Saving The World In Greg Taylor's The Killer Pizza

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Imagine you sign yourself up to work at a pizza place, but soon realize it’s not an ordinary pizza place. Then imagine you are put in a situation where you either save the world or everyone dies including you. Well that’s the position three teens are in in Greg Taylor’s “The Killer Pizza” there are three characters that have to work together to fight monsters and help the world survive. Greg Taylor tried to make the reader think differently of Strobe, than what he really is.
I think that the characters all have a good relationship, but I think that the author made people think differently of Strobe than what he really is. The reason I think this is because he isn’t open to anyone about anything. Strobe is like the odd one out of the group,

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