(2) YA In early-twentieth-century Liverpool, biracial orphan Beck is sent to Canada as free farm labor. The novel follows him on a hardship-filled journey (including being raped by a priest and abused by a racist farm couple) until he meets half-Siksika, half-Scottish Grace, whose story merges with his. The vibrancy, earthiness, and originality of the prose is startling. (A note explains that Rosoff finished the novel after Peet's death). Bib.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2017

(2) YA Sensitive Londoner Mila, twelve, travels with her father, Gil, to upstate New York to search for Gil's boyhood friend, who has inexplicably disappeared. The subject of this road-trip novel--how much guilt and tragedy can a person bear before he gives up on life?--is adult, but the writing is up to Rosoff's usual standards of originality, depth, wit, and insight.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2013

(1) YA Suppose that the gods are capricious and egotistical. Further, suppose that the god assigned to planet Earth is a lazy, self-centered, irresponsible, testosterone-infused teenage boy named Bob. Things go from bad to worse when Bob falls for a mortal, Lucy. Rosoff mixes satire, philosophical musings, and an over-the-top romance to create a darkly funny, cheeky, and subversive fantasy fable.

Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2012

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Sophie Blackall. Four hungry wild boars, Boris, Morris, Horace, and Doris, team up to make a "Massive Pudding" concocted from a hodgepodge recipe. Still famished, the rough-and-tumble boars decide to make a "Massive Cookie," recipe included. The funny illustrations, picturing the tusky four-legged characters lurching across the pages, nicely reflect the text's energy.

Reviewer: Sheila M. Geraty

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Sophie Blackall. Snail Jumpy Jack is afraid there's a monster behind a tree, under the table, etc. At each stumbling point his friend Googily reassures him. What Jumpy Jack doesn’t realize (though readers will): Googily himself is a (not-too-scary) monster. After such child-friendly humor, the flat ending is a letdown. Blackall illustrates this disarming look at fear with precision and a surrealist’s eye.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(2) YA Fifteen-year-old David Case begins to become unglued when he contemplates the world's dangers. Hoping to evade Fate, he changes his name to Justin and completes his disguise with a thrift-store wardrobe. Though Rosoff's second novel does not exude the raw energy of her How I Live Now, it does offer an intelligent, uniquely embellished view of teen angst gone too far.

Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2006

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Sophie Blackall. The narrator introduces the reader to four wild boars who have atrocious manners. Although the text is lively, with a tart, direct address, and the illustrations are child-appealing, with lots of bathroom humor, the point of the book is obscure. If the wild boars are younger siblings, as hinted in the penultimate spread, the explanation will come too late for most readers.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano

(1) YA Sent to live with four English cousins on their farm, fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy is smitten with the pastoral beauty around her, but especially with her cousin Edmond. Their idyllic love is interrupted when an (unnamed) enemy power invades the country. This first novel is intelligent, funny, serious, and sweet; a winning combination of acerbic commentary, innocence, and sober vision.

Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2004