Sally Gardner
Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.81 | 8264 Users | 1260 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Maggot Moon |
| ISBN: | 0763665533 (ISBN13: 9780763665531) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://candlewick.com/cat.asp?browse=Title&mode=book&isbn=0763665533&pix=n |
| Characters: | Standish Treadwell |
| Literary Awards: | Costa Book Award for Children's Book (2012), Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2016), Carnegie Medal (2013) |
Interpretation In Favor Of Books Maggot Moon
One hundred very short chapters, told in an utterly original first-person voice, propel readers through a narrative that is by turns gripping and darkly humorous, bleak and chilling, tender and transporting. What if the football hadn't gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn't want anyone to know. But Standish Treadwell - who has different-colored eyes, who can't read, can't write, Standish Treadwell isn't bright - sees things differently than the rest of the "train-track thinkers." So when Standish and his only friend and neighbor, Hector, make their way to the other side of the wall, they see what the Motherland has been hiding. And it's big...Mention About Books Maggot Moon
| Title | : | Maggot Moon |
| Author | : | Sally Gardner |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | February 12th 2013 by Candlewick (first published September 6th 2012) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Historical. Historical Fiction. Teen. LGBT |
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Ratings: 3.81 From 8264 Users | 1260 ReviewsWeigh Up About Books Maggot Moon
Thanks to Goodreads member Ellen Lee for recommending this delightful book. Set in a dystopian past reminiscent of Nazi-era Germany, this story chronicles the slow disintegration of a family by a totalitarian regime.At first read the tale seemed simplistic, but over the course of the novel I was able to become engrossed in it. The book also features an interesting graphic vignette of other creatures associated with despair such as flies and rats.Highly recommended for Young Adults.Guys!! This book was great!! I don't why I waited so long to read it, it had been on my shelf for 6 years I think. But I strongly recommend you to pick this one up. The book covered a lot of my favourite topics such as family, friendship and equality. The author portrayed so well how it is like to be under the control of a totalitarian regime and how the main character is everything but what this regime is promoting. He is dyslexic and has eyes of different colors, all against their believes
There's a difficulty for me in reviewing this, and one that I hope to address through the act of reviewing. I admit that's a fairly Moebius-esque sentence but I hope that it becomes clearer the further I go on.Gardner's superb. Her writing here is very beautiful, very stunning and occasionally cut from the clearest of glass which shines a little more every time you look at it. But, when I reflect on it, and when that reflection takes days to formulate clearly, I think I realise something. I
So okay, I had no idea what Maggot Moon was about before I started reading it. I just knew people liked it a lot. So as I was reading I kept wondering how much of it was based on real history. I mean, it certainly sounds like Standish is living in a Soviet occupied country. But I was reading it in the middle of the woods on a mountain with no data service for miles, so I just had to finish the book instead. And while it becomes apparent that the Motherland is not exactly the Soviet Union (the
this was such an interesting book..when I began to read it I though it would be a middle grade book but it wasn't because it has some of Adult and "serious" aspects!The relationship between Standish and Hector was SO CUTE!!!!And the art in this book is truly amazing! A nice read for shore
This could possibly be my very first review on GRs. I hope that many of you understand my predicament by now: I've been quite caught up in the alternate universe of Amazon. Thus, this is where at least two hundred of my previous reviews are stored. I've found the GR community to be quite forgiving and generous to a fault. I love you all so much for putting up with my non sensical diatribes about not finding the review button on my glow kindle. Mark Monday was one of the first to enlighten me and
Quite simply, I did not GET this book. I don't get the hype and rave reviews it has received, but more significantly I don't get WHO it was written for or what it's trying to say or achieve.I was expecting it to be a good crossover text, written for young adults, but very much easily enjoyed and appreciated by adult readers alike. Not so. If this was written for young adults, it's WAY off the mark in my opinion. I teach teenagers - I WANT books to be written for them which will challenge them
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