" Something surprising occurred to Finn.

"Are you all scared?" he asked. "Just because you don't know where the spinning room took us? Does it scare you that much when you don't know stuff?" He jumped up to the next higher step. "You should all remember what it's like to be a second grader. There's lots of stuff I don't know or understand, and I'm fine. "

― Margaret Peterson Haddix , The Strangers (Greystone Secrets, #1)