Sally Gardner
Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.81 | 8264 Users | 1260 Reviews
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| Title | : | Maggot Moon |
| Author | : | Sally Gardner |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First 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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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...Point Books During Maggot Moon
| 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) |
Rating Regarding Books Maggot Moon
Ratings: 3.81 From 8264 Users | 1260 ReviewsColumn Regarding Books Maggot Moon
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. IWhat an amazing read! I re-read this as soon as I'd finished it - first time I've ever done that. This is like reading '1984' narrated by Christopher from 'The Curious Incident...' It is set in a 1956 in which the Nazis won the war (this is not explicitly stated, but the clues are there, I think) and Standish and his grandfather live in Zone Seven - where the 'impure' are sent. Standish is dyslexic (maybe, again never stated explicitly) and it is his use of language that makes this such an
Introduced in 1939, The Carnegie Medal is perhaps the most prestigious of childrens/YA book awards, with any winner (or even shortlisted title) gaining a bank account buckling sales boost. The latest winner (2013) is Maggot Moon by Sally Gardener, a dystopian fable which follows dyslexic protagonist, Standish Tredwell.Standish lives in a kind of alternate realty in which the Motherland has taken control of 1950s England. Surveillance, disappearances and capital punishment are the daily norm, and
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
Book #2 of MLI2015(A book from the genre I read the least last year)What an amazing story!If the title isn't enough to grip you in and make you want to pick up the book instantly, consider this:Standish Treadwell has one eye each colour and besides not being very literate, he is one of the smartest in his class. Motherland emprisions him. His only friend is his Grandfather who he is living with because his parents have disappeared without a trace, as so many other people do - wiped out
OH bloody hell!!! Okay, I chose to read this book because everyone was talking about it saying it was a really good and short alternative history set in 1950s Britain. I assumed it was a middle grade book, which is not, and I also assumed it was not going to be as dark as it truly was. The writing was beautiful, Standish Treadwell is not very smart, but he has an ample vocabulary that makes me suck in the text and I will definitely be dreaming about it tonight. The language was so soft that it
I'd heard good things about Maggot Moon, Sally Gardner's 'what if' dystopian fable set in an alternative 1950s Britain under a totalitarian regime. So many good things, in fact, that I saved it for the last of my Carnegie reading, concerned a book described as 'perfect' by none other than Meg Rosoff could not possibly live up to its hype. Reader, it did. I devoured it quickly, over a couple of days which also involved the usual distractions from reading (work, children) and now I want to read it
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