Criss Cross
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Sunday, December 31, 1899 - 18:00
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Criss Cross
Winner Description:
written by Lynne Rae Perkins, Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Winner Blurb:
Criss Cross follows the lives of four 14-year-olds in a small town, each at their own crossroads. This ensemble cast explores new thoughts and feelings in their quest to find the meaning of life and love.
“Writing in a wry, omniscient third-person narrative voice, Perkins deftly captures the tentativeness and incompleteness of adolescence,” said Award Committee Chair Barbara Barstow. “In 38 brief chapters, this poetic, postmodern novel experiments with a variety of styles: haiku, song lyrics, question-and-answer dialogue and split-screen scenarios. With seeming yet deliberate randomness, Perkins writes an orderly, innovative, and risk-taking book in which nothing happens and everything happens.”
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Criss Cross
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Book
Winner Detail Create Date:
Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 04:48
Winner Detail Change Date:
Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 04:48
Winner Detail Change ID:
101
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