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Chandler, Kristen
2 Reviews
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YA
Girls don’t fly, and neither do flightless cormorants, the species seventeen-year-old Myra intends to study if she wins a research scholarship to the Galápagos Islands. Myra is a likable, level-headed narrator from a sympathetically drawn working-class Utah family. Chandler's depiction of small-town dynamics, high-school breakups, crappy after-school jobs, and Myra’s growing desire to break free from limited expectations is both fresh and relatable.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2012
(2)
YA
For KJ, life in West End, Montana, gets more interesting when Virgil, the newcomer with the "solar smile" arrives. The two become friends (and more), and together they launch a controversial school newspaper column about the wolves in nearby Yellowstone National Park. Chandler's feisty protagonist is fun to follow, as she not-so-carefully navigates the wolf lover/hater maelstrom and her relationship with Virgil.
Reviewer: Tanya D. Auger
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2010
2 reviews
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