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YA
October, 2029: Rose's fraught relationship with her widowed stepmother has matured into friendship, literally overnight. She exchanges her old drab clothes for new ones and socializes with the popular crowd. Things turn sinister as Rose discovers something outside herself is responsible for these changes in her personality. Touches of sci-fi and mystery glamorize this complex and introspective story.
Reviewer: Sarah Berman
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2016
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YA
The narrator of this startlingly original book is a voice inside fifteen-year-old Mike Welles's head. At first, the voice seems to be on Mike's side, but then it tells Mike to lie (to doctors, parents, teachers), turns him toward self-destructive behaviors--and pushes him to starve himself. The narrative voice--Mike's eating disorder, personified--is the star of this masterfully written novel.
Reviewer: Dean Schneider
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2013
176 pp.
| Viking
| February, 1999
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TradeISBN 0-670-87777-8$$15.99
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4-6
Discomfort with her immigrant grandmother turns to affection when thirteen-year-old Carrie Schmidt begins listening in earnest to Mutti's stories of the war. A better understanding of her mother, who died four years earlier, also comes about when the man who took her refugee mother in during the war pays a visit. Characters are sharply drawn and Carrie's emotional life is fully realized in this novel set in 1967.
Reviewer: Lauren Adams
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 1999
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