Language: PG (23 swears, 0 ‘f’); Mature Content: G; Violence: PG (while there is no blood or limb loss or such in the stories, each story is dark and twisted)
BUYING ADVISORY: MS - OPTIONAL; HS - ADVISABLE
APPEALS TO: SOME
Back in the 1990’s, Neal Shusterman released four books of short stories, each with about 8 stories to really shake your brain. I wish I still had those books in my library! Now he has taken most of those stories and added a couple of new stories from the Scythe-dom for 43 stories. While he has updated the technology and some of the writing, the old stories are just as mind-bending as they were when I first read them.
Our current students won’t have read those stories before. The cover and the bricked up page edges will catch their eye. But at over 500 pages it is a chunk of a book to read. I took it a couple of stories a day. Most of them had me sitting at the end just trying to figure out how he manages to create such interesting, if dark, looks at all kinds of people and worlds. The stories are still so Shusterman. I would love to have a reading group read one story at a time and talk about each of them in turn.
Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS
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