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Gardner, Sally

Maggot Moon

281 pp. | Candlewick | February, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-6553-1 $16.99
(1) YA Gardner here imagines an alternate, dystopic UK: a repressive 1950s regime that calls itself the Motherland and consigns undesirables to the derelict housing of Zone Seven. When his friend Hector disappears, Standish sets out to rescue and avenge him and uncovers a grotesque government hoax. Standish's tale has the energetic tension of poetry, rolling out with irony, tenderness, horror, or love, but always vividly.
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2013

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