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Friday Finds 11/14/2008
Filed under: Blogging, Books | Tags: Books, Jeffery Ford, The Shadow Year
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What great books did you hear about, or find, this week? SHARE WITH US YOUR FRIDAY FINDS!
Just one find this week…
The Shadow Year
Plot:
“Jeffrey Ford, Edgar Award-winning author, gives us a compelling mystery infused with 1960s nostalgia, supernatural doings, youthful mischief and small-town secrets.
It begins in the last days of August—“the shadow year,” a time of strange events for one sixth grader living in Long Island. First, a peeping tom prowls the neighborhood. Then, a classmate disappears, a school librarian goes crazy and a sinister man in a large white car appears. Our young narrator and his older brother Jim keep track of these events in “Botch Town,” a model of their village complete with cardboard houses and clay figures that they build in their basement.
But then the brothers realize that something odd is going on with Botch Town. Whenever they find that their younger sister, Mary, has secretly rearranged the figures, these changes soon turn up in real life! With the help of their seemingly psychic sister, the brothers investigate their classmate’s disappearance, and make a discovery that will cast a dark shadow across their lives.
Written with intelligence, humor and gentle grace, The Shadow Year is a masterly adventure from “a talent to be reckoned with.” (Pittsburgh Press)”
