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“My Brother’s Book” has echoes of Shakespeare’s “Winter’s Tale,”...and it contains some of Sendak’s richest and most incantatory language.

NY Times

94%
...leaves virtually no educational icon unscathed. Despite an impressive and idealistic corps of volunteers, Ravitch cites studies indicating that Teach for America may not improve the quality of education in poor and rural school districts.

NPR

92%
Realistic portrayal of contemporary teens and their moral challenges breathes fresh life into well-worn themes of rebellion and first love.

Publishers Weekly

90%
Remarkably, Stars might be Green’s best novel yet.

AV Club

89%
The strength of The Book Thief is its wit and understated horror...It is an impressive book and I appreciate Mr. Zusak’s ability, but a few lesser moments of the author trying to get the audience to tear up would have worked in its favor.

Blog Critics

88%
Little Brother is being marketed as a young-adult novel, but it's an entertaining, smart all-ages read . . . The tight thriller storyline and ripped-from-the-headlines immediacy are nigh-irresistible.

AV Club

88%
Authentic and relevant, this debut is one to top the charts.

Kirkus

88%
It’s a tour de force of characterization, and while there is no lack of event or mystery, it is the way Stiefvater’s people live in the reader’s imagination that makes this such a memorable read.

Publishers Weekly

88%
I honestly have nothing negative to say about this book, I enjoyed every single moment of it. The constant flashbacks into Mia’s life make you want to keep on turning the pages, to learn more about her...

Guardian

88%
It’d be nice and easy if this book and I were the rainbow-unicorn-happiness type. But what we have is real and it hurts, and I wouldn’t want it any other way.

Kirkus

88%
...the chief attractions here are the appealing cast and droll humor.

Kirkus

88%
Junior’s keen cartoons sprinkle the pages as his fluid narration deftly mingles raw feeling with funny, sardonic insight.

Kirkus

87%
Meticulous pacing and finely nuanced characters underpin the author's gift for affecting prose that illuminates the struggles within relationships.

Kirkus

87%
Although the last page of "Son" is heartwarming, readers of Book 3 in particular will be all too aware of the plot work required to get there.

LA Times

87%
The biographer of two great Romantics...relates yet another romantic tale—the story of the human passion to fly up, up and away in a beautiful balloon...Meticulous history illuminated and animated by personal passion, carried aloft by volant prose.

Kirkus

87%
Overall, Code Name Verity is a book that is clever, funny, bewildering, tragic and thought-provoking all at once. I know now that all the time I spent struggling on with it were truly worth it, and I am so glad that I saw it through to the end.

Guardian

86%
It’s not a feel-good story—dread, loss, and hard choices are the islanders’ lot. As a study of courage and loyalty tested, however, it is an utterly compelling read.

Publishers Weekly

86%
Themes of freedom, honor, sacrifice and horrific loss imbue this story with devastatingly real emotions and tragic events that lead to a haunting cliff-hanger ending. Outstanding!

RT Book Reviews

86%
This book leaves you with more questions then answers, but it was a great lead up story to what will be the final book in this series "Last Sacrifice." It was heartfelt, funny, intriguing, suspicious, and all-around entertaining!

Examiner

86%
Readers will feel every ounce of Khalid's terror, frustration, and helplessness in this disturbing look at a sad, ongoing chapter in contemporary history.

Publishers Weekly

86%

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