![]() ![]() And this narrative switches easily from the points of view of a girl, a couple of dogs, a cat, a seagull, an elderly gay French grandfatherish neighbor, a young stuttering war-veteran surf-shop owner, and more it shifts from past to present tense, from lyrical to earthy. ![]() “Keeper is heir to the oral tradition the narrator’s voice is powerful and always present, creating an exquisite tension between what we know is fiction and our urge to hand over our hearts to it anyway. In the first round, Susan Patron eloquently told us why Keeper is so powerful: ![]() This time, I’ll start by giving some highlights from the Battle of the Books judges: I would have liked to have seen it win an Honor, because this is a truly beautiful book. I read Keeper at the start of the year, after hearing great things about it on the Heavy Medal blog, where people discuss possible Newbery winners. It seems fitting to next tackle Keeper, which made it all the way to the Big Kahuna Round, defeating three excellent books along the way. In honor of the finishing of School Library Journal’s Battle of the Kids’ Books, I’m plannning to review the remaining books that competed, but which I hadn’t yet reviewed. 399 pages.Ģ011 School Library Journal Battle of the Kids’ Book Finalist ![]() Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York, 2010. ![]()
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