Oh! And may I return the favor and ask if you've read this year's Newbery winner, Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins? It's got a companion novel, All Alone in the Universe, and I just finished that and adored it and have barely started Criss Cross, and so far it entirely lives up to its predecessor.
Criss Cross has gotten a great deal of bad press from people who don't think it should have won the award, and I can sort of see why--Perkins's style is far too gentle and introspective for your average teenager--but it's so very lovely, gentle and introspective and subtly funny, and beautifully written in a style I think you'd appreciate very much. Which, you know, is why I brought it up in the first place.
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Date: 2006-03-13 12:44 am (UTC)Criss Cross has gotten a great deal of bad press from people who don't think it should have won the award, and I can sort of see why--Perkins's style is far too gentle and introspective for your average teenager--but it's so very lovely, gentle and introspective and subtly funny, and beautifully written in a style I think you'd appreciate very much. Which, you know, is why I brought it up in the first place.