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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%
The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it’s also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness.

Time Magazine

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%
Filled with sharp dialogue and detailed descriptions of how to counteract . . . tracers and other surveillance devices, this work makes its admittedly didactic point within a tautly crafted fictional framework.

Publishers Weekly

88%
Her successes are hard-won and her setbacks, such as her father's inability to forgive her, painfully true to life.

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%
Stiefvater, who has an assured and entertaining way with language, doesn’t talk down to her readers, and she ably blends the mystical and the earthly, the primitive and the contemporary...

NY Times

88%
Her combination of unforgettable characters and unexpected events generates hilarity as well as warmth.

Publishers Weekly

88%
Zoe’s introspective and surprisingly humorous voice will strike a chord with readers as they dwell on the space between guilt and innocence.

Publishers Weekly

88%
This is a story about surviving small town schools, which any young adult reader can benefit from. I don't mind telling you that this reader, rather late into young adulthood himself, found Alexie's novel an absolute delight.

NPR

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

Kirkus

87%
Claire’s story stands on its own, but as the final volume in this iconic quartet, it holistically reunites characters.

Kirkus

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%
Stiefvater has successfully plumbed lesser-known myths and written a complex literary thriller that pumps new blood into a genre suffering from post-“Twilight” burnout.

NY Times

86%
The story itself really hooked me. I really enjoyed reading this book and there's also a surprise element of ghosts in this book...A sequel that will change how the story goes on for Rose and Dimitri. Now, I shall run off to read the next book because I am going on a VA spree!

Forget Me Not

86%
The plot itself was gripping, again opening up the Dhampir/Moroi world further. I really love the growing awareness of the servant/master relationship that the two factions have and the politics are genuinely interesting. The book ends with a rather excellent cliffhanger leaving me with no idea how that aspect of the story would continue.

The Mountains of Instead

86%
Some parts made me laugh, others shocked me and few brought me close to tears. An intricately detailed romantic fantasy carved in an unconventional, original world with description, flawless humour and a faultless build-up of suspense, Siege and Storm is truly a story that leaves you breathless and wanting to read more.

Guardian

86%

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