Loud awake and lost – Adele Griffin, Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardback
Rating: 5
Genre: Realistic fiction
What did you like about the book? After a serious automobile accident eight months previously that left her passenger dead, Ember is finally ready to leave rehab and go home. She has no memory of the accident and the six weeks preceding it. She is rather frightened of finding out just who she really was. Intense and riveting.
What didn’t you like about the book? Nothing.
To whom would you recommend this book? Eva by Peter Dickinson provides a dramatic story of life after a serious accident.
Who should buy this book? Middle schools, high schools, and public libraries
Where would you shelve it and why? YA fiction
Should we (librarians) put this on the top of our “to read” piles? Yes.
Reviewer’s Name, Library (or school), City: Katrina Yurenka, Gardner High School
Date of review: 2/18/2013
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