Read the excerpt from It's Our World, Too!: Young People Who Are Making a Difference. When they entered the board's meeting room
, Neto was terrified. They were alone with the ten white men who were the members of the Marsing school board. "I couldn't believe I was really doing this," Neto recalls. "Then I heard Baldy say, 'Neto wants to talk with you about the football team.' "So I just started. I told them I was quitting and why. I told them word-for-word what I had heard. Only one of them looked like he was really listening. When I was finished, they thanked me for coming, but they didn't say they would do anything about it. I went home thinking, Well, at least I tried. Now they can't say nobody told them." Which detail from the excerpt best indicates that one of the author’s purposes in writing It's Our World, Too!: Young People Who Are Making a Difference was to create suspense? "Then I heard Baldy say, 'Neto wants to talk with you about the football team.' Only one of them looked like he was really listening. "I couldn't believe I was really doing this," Neto recalls. I went home thinking, Well, at least I tried.
Answer: "I couldn't believe I was really doing this," Neto recalls
Explanation:
The purpose of the author in writing this is to inform readers about the ways through which young people have an impact on the world and are changing it as a story involving high schoolers who brought about a change was illustrated.
The detail from the excerpt that indicates that one of the author's purpose was to create suspense was "I couldn't believe I was really doing this," Neto recalls"
