by Lynne Rae Perkins
The worst of the Newberry's so far. I was barely able to finish Criss Cross because nothing happened! We have 300 plus pages with no real plot. And, I can't say I'm a fan of this authors writing style. There was no real flow between sentences. Hard to believe this won a Newberry. Criss Cross is to...
The blurb reads "She wished something would happen". That's what I wished during the entire book. I don't understand how this book ever one a price, not mentioning the Newbery Medal. One sometimes wonders how there things happen...
Lovely prose but BORING!!!
Very cute "boy-doesn't-meet-girl" story. Honest in feelings for the age group and not all glossed up. The downside of this is it can seem to drag but it was so familiar to me that I kept reading, right to the end.
I guess the best word to describe this book would be "nice" or "pleasant" or "cute". It's one of those books that's just like, "This is a story about LIFE." In other words, it doesn't have much of a plot. It's basically just a bunch of character's thoughts about the world. The writing style is excel...
This book won the 2006 Newbery Medal, and I am for once in complete accord with the Newbery Committee. Perkins' prose is spare and clean. Some of the passages simply glow, especially when they are highlighting the ways in which we try to communicate and fail. Characters who love each other are at cr...
Great YA, kind of simple and quiet about some fourteen year olds. Just their lives, you know? Nothing special or dramatic.
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