Maggot Moon Hardcover - 2013

Media reviews

This novel will just blow you away...Such a beautiful read...this certainly has the potential to become a modern classic.
—The Bookseller (U.K.)

Startlingly original, sophisticated and moving, MAGGOT MOON is out of this world.
—The Sunday Times (U.K)

Dazzling, chilling, breathtaking. A perfect book.
—Meg Rosoff

Gardner does a masterful job of portraying Standish’s dyslexia through the linguistic swerves of his narration, and although the ending is pure heartbreak, she leaves readers with a hopeful message about the power of one boy to stand up to evil
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

This is alt-history second; first, it is an eerie, commanding drama.
—Booklist (starred review)

Standish’s tale has the terse, energetic tension of poetry; his phrases and sentences roll out with irony, tenderness, horror, or love, but always vividly...Most appealing of all, however, is Standish Treadwell himself: tender, incisive, brave, and determined, he takes a stand and treads well.
—The Horn Book (starred review)

Sally Gardner tells a story that is rich in drama and ideas.
—LoveReading4Kids.co.uk

Citations

• Booklist, 01/01/2013, Page 100
• Booklist Ed Choice Youth, 01/01/2014, Page 14
• BookPage, 03/01/2013, Page 0
• Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 03/01/2013, Page 332
• Horn Book Magazine, 03/01/2013, Page 100
• Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2013, Page 0
• Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2012, Page 0
• Publishers Weekly, 12/17/2012, Page 0
• PW Best Children's Books, 11/11/2013, Page 26
• School Library Journal, 03/01/2013, Page 158
• Voice of Youth Advocates, 02/01/2013, Page 0