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Hubbard, Jenny
2 Reviews
(3)
YA
After her ex-boyfriend's suicide, sixteen-year-old Emily Beam is sent to an Amherst, Massachusetts, boarding school to start anew and heal. And through a friendship with her sympathetic roommate, connecting with local legend Emily Dickinson's work, and blossoming as a poet herself, she starts to. Hubbard thrives in both prose and verse storytelling: interspersed within emotionally astute third-person-omniscient narration are Emily's moving poems.
Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen
(1)
YA
Alex tells of his classmate's drowning and the guilt he carries. Weighing on him are secrets that he and friend Glenn are hiding. The characters' relationships become increasingly complex as their identities--Alex's as a "Good, Solid Kid," for instance--get murkier. The buttoned-up boarding school setting makes the perfect backdrop to this tense dictation of secrets, lies, manipulation, and the ambiguity of honor.
Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2011
2 reviews
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