other hot reads ...Fever BY LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON For the performance artist and musician, see . Laurie Halse (rhymes with "waltz")[1] Anderson (born October 23, 1961) is a U.S. author who writes for children and young adults. Fever 1793 (Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller. ) is a major departure for the author of the tense contemporary novel Speak. It's about the 18th-century yellow-fever epidemic in Philadelphia that killed 5,000 people--10 percent of the population--in just three months. The harrowing historical novel is told episodically by date from August to November, with a brief epilogue, mostly through the eyes of Matilda, whose family owns and runs the Cook Coffeehouse. There is a very detailed appendix of historical material explaining some of what actually happened. Hope Was Here BY JOAN BAUR Proving once again that you can tell a serious tale with humor and affection, Hope Was Here (Putnam) is the story of Hope, a 16-year-old waitress, traveling with her Aunt Addie, a great diner cook. Leaving a diner in Brooklyn, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , where the owner cheated Addle ad·dle v. ad·dled, ad·dling, ad·dles v.tr. To muddle; confuse: "My brain is a bit addled by whiskey" Eugene O'Neill. See Synonyms at confuse. , the pair end up in rural Wisconsin. Next thing you know, they're in a great diner, involved in local politics. Hope takes it from there. Cut BY PATRICIA MCCORMICK
Patricia McCormick is an author for young adults and journalist. McCormick's stunning and disturbing first novel, Cut (Front Street), is about Callie, a girl whose family is in collapse: Her asthmatic younger brother requires constant hospitalization, her mother is terrified ter·ri·fy tr.v. ter·ri·fied, ter·ri·fy·ing, ter·ri·fies 1. To fill with terror; make deeply afraid. See Synonyms at frighten. 2. To menace or threaten; intimidate. , her father drinks too much and doesn't work enough. And Callie has discovered a strange sense of control in cutting herself. As the novel begins, Callie is a patient at a small hospital, and she's stopped talking, another way of being in control. The language is spare, but persuasive, and the plot believable. |
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