My Teacher is a Martian

Although my knowledge of Chinese is more advanced than required for this book, I don't do a lot of reading in Chinese and decided it would be good practice. I've read another of the books in the “breakthrough” level of the Mandarin Companion series and most of one in Level 2, so I think I'll move on to Level 1 before resuming work on the Level 2 books. This story is fun–two young students become interested in the stars and jump to the conclusion that their teacher is from Mars, so they set about trying to learn the truth. Given that only 150 characters are used, there is a lot of repetition, which can be a little tedious. For example, the two kids have names made up of three characters, and after a while I ignored the names because they were used in full many times in each paragraph. Good practice, I suppose, for learning to read a little faster.