edited by Roy Edwin Thomas ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1994
Personal anecdotes and brief folktales, most collected in the 1970s, from more than 70 of the Ouachita and Ozark Mountains' oldest citizens. Although Thomas gathers the vignettes into thematic groups—``Mama'd do the best she could''; ``We had good neighbors''; etc.—they give not so much a specific picture of turn-of-the-century mountain life as a sense of its flavor. Mrs. Liza Ann Carter Smith (b. 1872) recalls a flirtatious exchange with a man she'd known since the 1880s, another centenarian remembers her mother's biannual trip to town to buy fabric, and old Fred McCoy tells of a surprise party thrown for his uncle. Several tales and hunting stories testify to the storytellers' skill; even the Civil War era seems less remote after Frank Whitley's memories of reading to his parents, former slaves, or Mrs. Guthrey's description of her mother's family boiling the dirt on their smokehouse floor to reclaim salt. Kubinyi's small, cross-hatched still-lifes add scattered grace notes to the nostalgic recollections. A natural gateway to the Foxfire books. Biographical notes. (Autobiography/Folklore. 12+)
Pub Date: April 1, 1994
ISBN: 0-374-37089-3
Page Count: 168
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1994
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by Carrie Ryan Amy Silverstein ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 9, 2010
Decades after the events of The Forest of Hands and Teeth (2009), teenager Gabry lives in relative safety. Despite the Barrier keeping the ravaging zombies out of town, Gabry is a terrified homebody who wants only to stay sheltered with her mother, the refugee heroine of Forest. Her nervousness is justified; when Gabry is peer-pressured into sneaking past the Barrier for a night of adolescent rebellion, several of her friends are zombified. (One wonders, if teens sneaking out for a snog is so dangerous to society, how there any humans left at all.) The ensuing chaos sends Gabry into the wilderness where, encumbered by revelations about love and family, she encounters zombie-worshiping cultists, the dangerous remnants of the army and her own past. Whatever comes between Gabry and her mother, there’s one thing they definitely have in common: Like her mother, Gabry experiences an angst-ridden, gloomy love triangle while fleeing from zombie hordes in the forest’s depths. Fast-paced despite the mawkish romance, it will be gobbled up by fans of the first volume like brains. (Horror. 12-14)
Pub Date: March 9, 2010
ISBN: 970-0-385-73684-8
Page Count: 416
Publisher: Delacorte
Review Posted Online: Dec. 23, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2010
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This story presents an alien invasion from two unique viewpoints. Megs is 12, trapped alone in the parking garage of a Los Angeles hotel, forced to scrounge for food and water while avoiding alien spaceships outside and security guards who have taken over the hotel with vicious disregard for the safety of their “guests” inside. Josh is about to turn 16, trapped in his house in Washington state with his father and dog, watching their world being slowly but surely destroyed, day after day, from his living-room window. Both have to deal with supplies that shrink with every rationed meal. No phones, no radio or television, no electricity and no ability to step out of shelter without being “deleted”—this is a new world that only the truly brave can exist in. Written in short chapters that alternate between Megs and Josh, this masterful debut grabs readers by the throat from the first page and never lets go. It is clear at the end that there’s a lot more story to tell, and one can only hope that a sequel is not far behind. (Science fiction. 12 & up)
Pub Date: April 1, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-60898-011-6
Page Count: 212
Publisher: Namelos
Review Posted Online: Dec. 15, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2010
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