From: Steven Engelfried <sengelfried>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:44:46 -0800 (PST)

I admire the ideals and the sentiment of "Bronx Masquerade," but felt it was a little too contrived to be called an excellent novel. The neatly diversified students, each with a special talent that they hide, letting it all shine through with poems...it was all a little too kids-from?me for me. Still, once you're into the idealized reality of the novel, it works, and I think teen readers will be less bothered (or not at all) by the artificiality that put me off at first. It reminded me a lot of Myers' "Handbook for Boys:" neither book is at all subtle about its message, but both get it across in interesting and thought provoking ways.

- Steven Engelfried,
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Received on Thu 13 Mar 2003 10:44:46 PM CST