Montana 1948
Submitted by Murda411 on October 18, 2008
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Montana 1948
Aidan Chambers has also been highly regarded for the nerve and wit with which his young adult novels are composed. Chambers plays with narrative conventions, often using the shapeliness of innovative prose forms to stand in for the allure of romance. With the Carnegie Medal-winner Postcards from No Man's Land, he takes his concerns several steps further and produces a truly memorable novel: teens may remember not only that they read it, but also where and when they read it. The story unfolds in two tellings. Seventeen-year-old Jacob Todd has gone to Amsterdam as an emissary of his grandmother, to visit the survivors among the Dutch family that had given succor to Jacob's grandfather...
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