Wednesday, July 13, 2011

2011 book 179

Michael Northrup's Trapped
I frequently have the discussion about current YA books vs. the YA books we had growing up in the '80s and '90s, and how today's tend to be meatier/deeper. This book is a good example of that--one of my favorite books when I was a kid was No Time for Rabbits, about a few kids and a teacher trapped in a school during a blizzard. And Trapped is the modern version of that, but it's much more harrowing and there really isn't much humor. Which, frankly, is more realistic. Anyway, great story--some of the characters aren't well-developed and the end is a bit abrupt, but it managed to give me the chills on a day with record-breaking heat, so. A-/B+.

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