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The Alex Crow
Contributor(s): Smith, Andrew (Author)
ISBN: 0147511763     ISBN-13: 9780147511768
Publisher: Speak
OUR PRICE:   $9.34  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2016
* Not available - Not in print at this time *
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Family - Adoption
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - New Experience
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.70 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Death/Dying
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 180707
Reading Level: 6.0   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 13.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
The author of Printz Honor book Grasshopper Jungle returns with another genre-bending literary exploration of the absurd.

Once again blending multiple story strands that transcend time and place, Grasshopper Jungle author Andrew Smith tells the story of 15-year-old Ariel, a refugee from the Middle East who is the sole survivor of an attack on his small village. Now living with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, Ariel's story of his summer at a boys' camp for tech detox is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber and the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century. Oh, and there's also a depressed bionic reincarnated crow.


Smith takes readers] to a place where humanity is imbued with the potential to render people inhuman...and reminding us that being human, all too human, is far better than any conceivable alternative." --BCCB Reviews, starred review

Magnificently bizarre, irreverent and bitingly witty" --Kirkus, starred review

Smith is a spiritual heir to Kurt Vonnegut" --Booklist, starred review

"Fans of Smith's raunchy, profane, and provocative work will find this funny but morally serious tale deeply appealing." --Publishers Weekly, starred review