Review of My Experience with "The Maze Runner"

The book that I read for reading workshops and mini lessons was The Maze Runner. This book is about a boy who is suffering from amnesia. He has totally forgotten his previous life and is thrown into a "camp" with other teenage boys. Every boy has a job and he wants to do something called maze running (or also known as runners). I do not know how the book ends about there are many things about this book that stuck in my mind that I will present now.
My Book Review: This book is just plain weird. I'm sure if I read the whole book I would understand half of what is going on but in the beginning of the book there are many strange plot lines going on. There are so many questions and nothing is explained. I read half the book and NONE of the questions that I had were fully answers or in the very least understood. The more I read the stranger it got. I will probably find everything I need to understand and answer my question but if I were a student I could see how frustrating the book would be and how they might want to give up.
I choose to do predictions in the book for my mini lesson. Finding a children's book that this skill could be found in was easy, but then I realized that I needed to apply this skill in The Maze Runner. My experience with this book was 50/50. In my lesson I had my "students" read the first chapter and we made predictions together because it would have been so hard for the student if I had just let them come to their conclusions by themselves. So many new things are being introduced to the reader that they don't understand. They are presented with a main character that doesn't even know himself. They are also put into a setting that is foreign. As I said before students might not get into the book like a teacher would want. There are so many variables that it is hard to get into.
One good thing about this book is that you can predict away as much as your heart desires. So many things are going on that you can pretty much guess anything and it might be correct. At the same time it might be a great book if you are looking for something with less structure. For upper-aged elementary students it would be useful in teaching students about predicting and visualization. Because there are so many open ends in the book students have a lot of leeway in making their predictions. Visualization is good as well because this whole new world, for the main character, is described in full.
This book might go either way as far as teaching is concerned but overall I would not recommend it to any grade below sixth. It is just too strange and in a weird way it reminds me of Louis Lawry's The Giver. It was a good book in the end but the reader has to wait a while before they can understand why and how things are going on.