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279 pp.
| Candlewick
| September, 2018
|
TradeISBN 978-1-5362-0104-8$17.99
(4)
YA
Naive Ella works in a sewing workshop at "Birchwood," the English name for Birkenau (the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in fact had a workshop of just this kind). Ella develops a close friendship with Rose (with undertones of sexual attraction). Characterization and imagery are among the novel's strengths, though some readers may object to its simplifying and decontextualizing events in the name of "show[ing] universal experiences."
(2)
YA
In the distant future, Luka has escaped from the Blue Mountain water factory. Brainy Kat and beautiful Tanka have just landed on the Frontier, an Edenic continent. Their stories intersect at Cherry Heaven--the estate Luka grew up on and Kat and Tanka have just moved into. Science-fiction details are fully developed, and the Holocaust parallels inform a complexly realized society.
Reviewer: Vicky Smith
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2008
282 pp.
| Greenwillow
| April, 2005
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TradeISBN 0-06-076615-8$15.99
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LibraryISBN 0-06-076616-6$16.89
(2)
YA
On the planet Home From Home, Toni V, a barely educated brute laborer helping to pulverize the bombed-out remains of a city plaza, uncovers the diary of Pelly D, a hip member of the swank elite. Adlington interweaves the two narratives. When gene tagging identifies her as undesirable and Pelly D's life begins to unravel, readers will detect echoes of 1930s Europe.
Reviewer: Vicky Smith
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2005
3 reviews
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