After meeting Maggie Stiefvater in person at Houston’s recent Teen Book Con, and being reminded of how much I appreciate her brilliance and great spirit, I decided to give The Scorpio Races a try.
It is absolutely her best book yet.
R.J. Palacio worked for more than 20 years in publishing as an art director and book cover designer before she finally decided to “just go for it” and write her own book. What a shame that the world had to wait this long for such a profound, moving, heartfelt book like Wonder.
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My thoughts about The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern are complicated. I wanted to love this book, I really did. But…I didn’t love it. And yet, I would still recommend it. Complicated, indeed.
It was refreshing to read a young adult book that does not involve a dystopian society, fairy tale creatures, or teens in impossibly adult situations. No, The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe is just about…a contagious, deadly disease.
The various motifs in Beth Hoffman’s Saving CeeCee Honeycutt have all been done before: tragic circumstances, a wide-eyed and courageous young protagonist, The South with its moss-covered trees and exotic flowers and buzzing critters, eccentric Southern women, including a wise, loving, tough-as-nails black housekeeper. No, there isn’t much to call “original” about Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, but I loved it anyway.
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