01 Nov / Minn & Jake’s Almost Terrible Summer by Janet S. Wong, illustrated by Geneviève Côté [in Bloomsbury Review]
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Written in sparse free verse, Janet Wong perceptively captures the elliptical communication of two best friends – caught in that nebulous zone of preteen angst – whose summer starts off with too many misunderstandings.
Review: “TBR’s Editors’ Favorites of 2008,” The Bloomsbury Review, November/December 2008
Readers: Middle Grade
Published: 2008