From: Dean Schneider <schneiderd>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 11:57:49 -0600

As I read my way through my "Books I've Been Meaning to Read" pile, one that has stood out is Jacqueline Woodson's Miracle's Boys, published by Putnam. It was a CCBC Book of the Week back in June and was a CCBC Coretta Scott King Award Discussion Honor book. (Walter Dean Myers's 145th Street was the winner.)

I'm sorry it took me so long to get around to reading this! It's a wonderfully written novel -- lyrical, nicely structured, and affectionately told. I'll leave it to Megan Schliesman's review at CCBC Book of the Week to tell the particulars of the story; suffice it to say here that it's a quiet novel about many things great and small: life and death, family, dreams, neighborhood, life, all rooted in one young boy's narrative. I love this kind of quiet novel rooted in place and character, the same reason I liked At the Sign of the Star so much, as I said in my last posting.

Should be a contender for the Newbery or Printz and the Coretta Scott King awards.

Dean Schneider Ensworth School 211 Ensworth Avenue Nashville, TN 37205 schneiderd at ensworth.com
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