ALA Best Books For Young Adults
2005 Nominations: 15
I've read: 1
The Book Of Dead Days.
by Marcus Sedgwick
One Night. 5Q, 4P
by Margaret Wild
- One Night was one of the best verse novels I've ever read. It had a large ensemble cast, but it was never difficult to tell people apart. The scenes between the young mother and her baby were very touching and well written. Everything was spare and not too wordy, but not just words thrown at random places on the page to look artsy (only one of those poems, and it still worked). The addition of the information about Helen's father's parents' drug problem and her mother's drowned child almost added too much angst, but by that point, I was going to go wherever the author took me, and enjoy the ride and the great poetry. It was a great, quick read. Poetry isn't for everyone, but the extra empty space on the pages is always an incentive to read.
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