DR. RADWAY: The School Library Journal Review

I'm here on this blog this morning thanking Etta Anton for this kind review of Dr. Radway's Sarsaparilla Resolvent in School Library Journal. I love that she pairs this book with Dangerous Neighbors as well as Laurie Halse Anderson's Fever as books that open door to Philadelphia for younger readers.

That had been my ambition all along.

Thank you, Etta.

And thank you, Gary Kramer of Temple University Press, for letting me know.

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Dangerous Neighbors: The School Library Review

I have Egmont USA's Greg Ferguson to thank for inspiriting this afternoon with the good news of a very kind School Library Journal review for Dangerous Neighbors, the final words of which I quote here, and Pamela Sedor and Ann Pagano to thank for the Radnor Memorial Library event poster above.

I honestly don't know what I'd do, on some of these darkish, headed toward winter days without this kind of light.

Thank you.

Ultimately, it is through chance meetings with “dangerous neighbors” and caring strangers that Katherine begins to consider the possibilities of her own life going forward. Her forgiveness of Bennett and herself gives birth to a sense of hope and helps this tenderly crafted story end with a positive spin. Kephart has painted a vivid picture of the Exhibition. Readers can practically smell the roasted peanuts and feel the bruise of crowds shoving by as she creates a lively setting against which a quiet, desperate struggle is played out.–Karen Elliott, Grafton High School, WI(School Library Journal)

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