Lois Metzger
Lois Metzger was born in Queens, New York, and has always written for young adults. Of her four novels, two take place in Belle Heights, a fictional neighborhood in Queens, loosely based on Flushing, Forest Hills, and Kew Gardens Hills. She has also written two non-fiction books about the...
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Lois Metzger was born in Queens, New York, and has always written for young adults. Of her four novels, two take place in Belle Heights, a fictional neighborhood in Queens, loosely based on Flushing, Forest Hills, and Kew Gardens Hills. She has also written two non-fiction books about the Holocaust; her mother and many of her relatives had to escape Vienna during World War II. She has edited five anthologies of original short stories by some of the best young-adult writers in the business. She lives in Greenwich Village with her husband and son.
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If the synopsis to Change Places With Me didn't make you raise your eyebrows a little, I'm impressed. When I first saw this book synopsis, it automatically put this onto my TBR. The idea of waking up a different person, of suddenly wondering if you're even you any longer, has always fascinated with ...
the most interesting thing about this book was something that i immediately noticed: the point of view it's told from. sometimes i want to read a book about a boy without having to read the book from the boy's perspective. i want to see their world from the outside it, not always the inside out. thi...
I've read several books about eating disorders in 2013, but A Trick of the Light is the first one with a male main character, and also the most unique. The narrator of the story is not Mike, it is anorexia itself, which brings a completely different perspective. The story begins as Mike's life sta...
I've read several books about eating disorders in 2013, but A Trick of the Light is the first one with a male main character, and also the most unique. The narrator of the story is not Mike, it is anorexia itself, which brings a completely different perspective. The story begins as Mike's life sta...
Where, oh where did Mike go? At first it was his mother with her hourly baths and her inability to get out of bed. Then his father started to disappear at work. When Valerie shows up at school, Mike thought he might have a chance at this new classmate but his best friend Tamio sweeps in and Mike k...
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