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186 pp.
| Farrar/Kroupa |
March, 2007 |
TradeISBN 978-0-374-33467-3$16.00
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4-6
At the height of the Cold War, Rex's family moves to Ottawa, where he joins a neighborhood gang tracking down an escaped panther. The present-tense narrative is brilliant in its near stream-of-consciousness depiction of Rex's world. The meticulous plotting sets the enormity of world destruction against the equally cataclysmic concerns of childhood, all magnified through the protagonist's vivid imagination.
Reviewer: Vicky Smith
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2007