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Children's and Young Adult Books of the Year 2009

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December 2009–January 2010, no. 317

Children's and Young Adult Books of the Year 2009

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December 2009–January 2010, no. 317

Maya Linden

Amid the proliferation of fiction inspired by supernatural themes, it is refreshing to find several débuts concerned with the more mundane – yet perhaps more pertinent – quests of adolescence. Tohby Riddle’s The Lucky Ones (Penguin) explores a period of change in the life of Tom, an aspiring artist, as he negotiates the purgatory between high school and adulthood. Told in a conversational voice, punctuated with poetic observation, it is a meditation on ‘the faint sadness that seems to underpin all things wonderful’.

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