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Genre/Form: | Children's stories Science fiction Fiction Juvenile works Science fiction, Juvenile Juvenile fiction |
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Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school, Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Megan Frazer Blakemore |
ISBN: | 9781619636361 1619636360 9781681195278 1681195275 |
OCLC Number: | 938849213 |
Awards: | A Junior Library Guild Selection. |
Description: | 340 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Megan Frazer Blakemore. |
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In this gripping novel, Blakemore (The Friendship Riddle) creates a disturbingly ordered world in which questions about friendship and family offer courageous and heartwarming testaments to the human spirit. * Publishers Weekly * This creepy, memorable novel is a welcome addition to the relative few utopian/ dystopian books for pre-YA readers . . . An ending that will have readers eagerly anticipating the next installment. * BCCB * The themes are strong, and the depiction of a tightly controlled world at the expense of individuality will surely fascinate fans of Lois Lowry's The Giver . . . A very good selection for middle grade readers drawn to high-concept science fiction. * School Library Journal * Will have children turning pages and thinking about important questions. An excellent choice for those who love Lois Lowry's The Giver or Margaret Peterson Haddix's sci-fi adventures. * Booklist * Less stark than The Giver (1993), this welcome addition to the dystopic utopia genre is a young cousin of Ally Condie's Matched (2010) and Mary Pearson's The Adoration of Jenna Fox (2008). * Kirkus * Science, history and literature references glow . . . With keen intelligence and bits of humor, the prose slips calmly between narrative perspectives, trusting readers to pick up a revelation that Ephraim and Mallory don't see--and it's a doozy. This one is special. -- starred review * Kirkus Reviews on THE WATER CASTLE * What shines through . . . is Blakemore's tender understanding of how these children--and all children--feel about their lives and the adults who control them. * New York Times on THE WATER CASTLE * It is no mystery that readers will come to love Hazel Kaplansky. -- Kirby Larson, Newbery Honor-winning author of HATTIE BIG SKY, on THE SPY CATCHERS OF MAPLE HILL Thought provoking . . . a tribute to the great girl detectives of children's literature. * New York Times Book Review on THE SPY CATCHERS OF MAPLE HILL * Read more...


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