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Bookshelves of Lesser Doom

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Posts tagged middle grade fiction

Aug 8 '11
“Moody, psychologically probing and sometimes terrifying, Mr. Sleator’s work chronicled young people’s passage through all manner of dystopias. It was a fitting juxtaposition of age group and subject matter, for what, after all, is more dystopian than adolescence?”
— The NYT obituary for William Sleator.

(Source: The New York Times)

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Mar 21 '11
Ask Amy Green: Boy Trouble, by Sarah Webb. Pros: Like a more-realistic, more issue-y, more accessible Georgia Nicholson. Cons: Like a more-realistic, more issue-y, more accessible Georgia Nicholson. Cute, but unless I hear something amazing, I’ll skip the sequel.

Ask Amy Green: Boy Trouble, by Sarah Webb.

Pros:

  • Like a more-realistic, more issue-y, more accessible Georgia Nicholson.

Cons:

  • Like a more-realistic, more issue-y, more accessible Georgia Nicholson.

Cute, but unless I hear something amazing, I’ll skip the sequel.

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