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BROWSE BOOK REVIEWS




Adult Authors Writing for Teens (page 3)


Cover art for SUMMERLAND
CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2002

"This raucous, exhilarating, joyful, and, above all, fun offering displays an enormous respect for the tradition of great fantasies that come before it, from Irving, Baum, and Nesbit, to Lewis, Tolkien, and Pullman, while confidently taking its place beside them. (Fiction. 10+)"
"Well, we got no choice, an' that's a fact. The Rade has showed up, years before we ever done expected them, and yer about ten years shy o' half-cooked, but we got no choice. Read full book review >
Cover art for HOOT
CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 10, 2002

"If the ending is somewhat predictable, it is also entirely satisfying—Hoot is, indeed, a hoot. (Fiction. 10-14)"
The straight-arrow son of a maybe-federal agent (he's not quite sure) turns eco-terrorist in this first offering for kids from one of detective fiction's funniest novelists. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS
CHILDREN'S
Released: Nov. 1, 2001

"Excruciatingly funny, ferociously intelligent. (Fiction. YA)"
Satiric adult SF superstar Pratchett (The Last Hero, p. 1254, etc.) resets the Pied Piper tale on Discworld, with predictably unpredictable results. Read full book review >