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228 pp.
| Feiwel
| November, 2009
|
TradeISBN 978-0-312-38297-1$16.99
(4)
4-6
Hockey and drawing are Joey's two passions in life, but if he wants to make his hunter father proud, he has to shoot a buck. Readers will sympathize with Joey as he agonizes over his feelings of inadequacy, but the story suffers from a tell-not-show (i.e., we hardly see Joey doing what he claims to love) approach.
215 pp.
| Feiwel
| May, 2008
|
TradeISBN 978-0-312-37123-4$16.95
(4)
4-6
Despite mounting evidence, Dill refuses to believe that her dog, Dead End, is the culprit farmers seek after finding their livestock attacked. Still pained by her mother's recent death, Dill keeps pretending that everything is fine. Set in rural Virginia, the story both pulls and pushes away readers' sympathies by focusing on Dill's sometimes poignant, sometimes frustratingly naive, denial of the truth.