![]() ![]() ![]() There is a good story in here somewhere but as Groucho Marx once said, “this isn’t it”.īelieve me I don’t like criticising books as I want kids to read, but this title just left me flat. I just didn’t get this book and I think children will struggle too. ![]() The game show progresses but not the relationship, why leave it dangling? Miranda’s mother at the start of the novel is set to appear on a game show on TV and is deciding whether to form a relationship with the man in her life, Richard. The setting of New York City brings with it some strange characters none more than the laughing man who lives on the streets and seems to know more about Miranda and what will happen than she does. At school she becomes friends with Annemarie who has fallen out with Julia. Miranda narrates the story.įor all her school life Miranda has been friends with Sal, after a confrontation with Marcus, Sal becomes aloof which bemuses Miranda. ![]() Miranda and her relationships are the gist of the novel, but they don’t seem to go anywhere with the only drama being near the end of the book. I wonder how a child of twelve would see it, as it is for this age group that the novel is written. I found the book a little inaccessible, an enigma, even though I did recognise it as an original and deep story. This book won the Newberry Medal for the best children’s book in USA this year. ![]()
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