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Part heartrending reality, part hopeful fairy tale. It is easy to tell that Shepherd was influenced by "Narnia" and The Secret Garden. Readers of those classics will enjoy this. ["Chapters are all very short and well formed around single events, giving the book a choppy unevenness that emphasizes how silly Emmaline's quest really is": SLJ 8/16 review of the Delacorte book.]
Readers who want more alien YA fiction may like this one, but Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave (Putnam, 2013) and Pittacus Lore's "Lorien Legacies" series (HarperCollins) are a better place to start newly interested teens.
Gr 9 Up—The final volume of the "Madman's Daughter" series (HarperCollins) accomplishes something too often lacking in trilogies—a third volume that is as compelling and well-written as the first installment...
Gr 8 Up—Megan Shepherd's deliciously dark and exciting sequel to The Madman's Daughter (HarperCollins, 2013) continues with Juliet's return to London after her escape from her father's island...