Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
A 2014 Michael L. Printz Honor Book In Sally Gardner's stunning novel, set in a ruthless regime, an unlikely teenager risks all to expose the truth about a heralded moon landing. What if the football hadn't gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn't want anyone to know. But Standish Treadwell -- who has different-colored eyes, who can't read, can't write, Standish Treadwell isn't bright -- sees things differently than the rest of the train-track thinkers. So when Standish and his only friend and neighbor, Hector, make their way to the other side of the wall, they see what the Motherland has been hiding. And it's big.One hundred very short chapters, told in an utterly original first-person voice, propel readers through a narrative that is by turns gripping and darkly humorous, bleak and chilling, tender and transporting.Sally Gardner was born and raised in London. She was thrown out of many schools, deemed unteachable, and put to a school for maladjusted children because she was dyslexic and did not learn to read or write until she was fourteen. Despite this, she graduated with honors from a prestigious London art college, received a scholarship to a theater school, and went on to work as a successful costume designer on a number of noteworthy performances. She began illustrating and eventually writing picture books and chapter books after the births of twin daughters and a son, frequently with fairytale or otherwise magical subject matter. The Sunday Times in London dubbed her an eccentric brilliance.
Her debut novel for older audiences is I, Coriander. Lucy Willow and the popular Magical Children series, The Strongest Girl in the World, The Invisible Boy, The Boy with Magic Numbers, The Smallest Girl in the World, The Boy with Lightning Feet, and The Boy Who Could Fly are just a few of her middle-grade novels. Her picture books include The Fairy Catalogue, The Glass Heart, The Book of Princesses, and Playtime Rhymes, which she wrote and drew.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780763671693 |
| ISBN 10 | 076367169X |
| Title | Maggot Moon |
| Author | Sally Gardner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Candlewick Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2014-09-09 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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