I’m not even going to try to summarize this one, except to say: interweaving of Snow White & Rose Red, Rumpelstiltskin, and probably some other tales into a lyrical novel with the most sexual creepiness I have had the misfortune to encounter in awhile. This is an excellent example of a book marketed to [...]
Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan
October 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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My Most Excellent Year: a Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, & Fenway Park, by Steve Kluger
July 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Three three-dimensional best friends, families that genuinely love each other, disability and homosexuality just tossed in like the normal parts of life they are, and it’s even set in Boston! Sold.
The plot is complicated — there’s a deaf kid, a theater production, a wacky road trip to New York (does it count as a [...]
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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, by Jack Gantos
July 10th, 2009 · No Comments
In two weeks I’ll be heading to the Simmons College Children’s Literature Summer Institute. Three days of talks by and schmoozing with fabulous authors, editors, and other people working in the children’s lit field (not to mention some dear friends). So excited!
I realized that I’m unfamiliar with the work of a [...]
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Things Not Seen, by Andrew Clements
January 16th, 2009 · 13 Comments
Bobby Phillips, Ordinary Teenage Guy, wakes up one morning to find that he’s invisible. His mom freaks out, his physicist dad is obsessed with figuring out why, but Bobby’s just trying to live his invisible life. One day, while slinking around the library, he bumps into a blind girl named Alicia — who [...]
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