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200 pp.
| McElderry |
October, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-689-83884-0$$17.00
(1)
YA
Ellis is both yearning for wild adventure and trying to deal with a friend's recent suicide. Mahy takes us on a twenty-four-hour roller-coaster ride in which staid Ellis has his head shorn, gets a little skull tattoo, and rescues a kidnapped baby. Not since Memory has the brilliance of Mahy's literary gift found a better home than in this resilient tale of life, both mundane and far-out, winning out over death.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2000