Oooh. Ick. Avoid this series.  I don’t like to be mean, but I was only part way through the story before I had to check the publisher to see who was responsible for letting this get to print.  It’s meant to be some kind of hybrid between fiction and non-fiction — on the back of the book it bills itself as a tool for “understanding and comparing literature and informational texts.”  But this is a far cry from literature.  The fictional part of the story is lame and stilted and lacks any kind of character development, and the information is limited.  Stick with straight forward volcano information books.