As a digital subscriber, you’ll receive unlimited access to Horn Book web exclusives and extensive archives, as well as access to our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database.
To access other site content, visit The Horn Book homepage.
To continue you need an active subscription to hbook.com.
Subscribe now to gain immediate access to everything hbook.com has to offer, as well as our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database, which contains tens of thousands of short, critical reviews of books published in the United States for young people.
Thank you for registering. To have the latest stories delivered to your inbox, select as many free newsletters as you like below.
No thanks. Return to article
(2)
4-6
Both outsiders in their mid-1940s Maine prep school, Jack and Early are each mourning someone: Jack's mother has died; Early has lost his beloved older brother to the war. While the writing is as minutely observant as it was in the author's Newbery-winning Moon over Manifest, this book has a stronger trajectory, developed when Vanderpool sends the boys on a life-changing quest.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2013