Pros: A fun, harrowing journey for youth. Cons: Shortness.
Along the lines of 'Riddly Walker' by Russel Hoban, The Last Book is an adventurous journey set in an unknown future where civilization as we know it is remembered only as fairy tales. Rodman Philbrick, author of the popular and award winning Freak the...
Pros: Exiting, keeps you on your toes.
Cons: Confusing at some parts.
The Last Book in the Universe is a wonderful book about the future. In a place where there are mind probes, and Eden (a place of shelter), and everywhere else is a big pile of crude with smoke, shantytown and chains of drugs. A boy named Spaz lives....
Although this owes a lot to such titles as Lois Lowry's The Giver and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, there is much to admire in Philbrick's tale of a postapocalyptic future. Gang member Spaz, a young epileptic, is ordered to rob an old man by the name of...
Paperback, Max the Mighty This is the dramatic, heartwrenching tale of Max and Worm, two outsiders who turn to each other for survival. Written in a haunting yet uplifting firs...
Hardcover - Reinforced Hardcover, Freak the Mighty An established writer of adult suspense makes a stunning entry into children s literature with this extraordinary novel about two boys--a slow learner...
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