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Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley has the distinction of winning the William C. Morris Debut YA Novel Award and the Michael L. Printz (the
First reviewed 3/2/11, Melina Marchetta's Printz winning novel is stunning for the craft with which she tells this layered story as well as the complex, compelling characters she creates. Stick with it and you will be greatly rewarded - and need a box of tissues.
If you search the internet for reviews of Melina Marchetta's Printz winning novel, Jellicoe Road and read a few lines, you
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I discovered The Year of the Gadfly by Jennifer Miller on a list titled 10 Ways to Relive Adolescence without Angst or Acne compiled by Kirkus Reviews.
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Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan is a book written for adults, but the plot is built around so many cultural techie references with an underlying current
If you search the internet for reviews of Melina Marchetta's Printz winning novel, Jellicoe Road and read a few lines, you will know that this is a unique book that is difficult to write a review of. In her acceptance speech for the Printz (in which she says some really wonderful things about YA books and librarians, booksellers and bloggers) she thanks "Louis Sachar for writing Holes and
I have to admit that I didn't stick with it when I got it from the library. Given that I can never read uninterrupted, I'm not sure that I can try it again for another few years. But I will try again!
Yes! Give it a try when you can sit with it, uninterrupted, for about 100 pages or so. One review I read recommended returning to the prologue and rereading it often, which I did, and it helped me keep track of the five friends. I'm not a mystery reader, but I enjoyed figuring out who was who and what was what and gasping or crying when things were revealed. It's a stunner.