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Review of Scattered Showers: Stories
Scattered Showers: Stories by Rainbow Rowell; illus. by Jim Tierney High School Wednesday/St. Martin’s 288 pp. 11/22 9781250855411 $24.99 e-book ed. 9781250855428 $12.99 Teen readers of Rowell’s (Eleanor & Park, rev. 5/13; Fangirl, rev. 11/13) first short-story collection will relish spending time with her nine distinct narratives about love (four...
Five questions for Rainbow Rowell
Photo: Augusten Burroughs. Rainbow Rowell's graphic-novel debut Pumpkinheads (Roaring Brook/First Second, 14 years and up) takes place in a theme park–like pumpkin patch (petting zoo, pumpkin slingshot, haunted graveyard, s'mores pit), where over the course of their last day at work, college-bound employees and BFFs Deja and Josiah search for...
Review of Pumpkinheads
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell; illus. by Faith Erin Hicks;
color by Sarah Stern High School First Second/Roaring Brook 222 pp. 8/19 978-1-250-31285-3 $24.99 Paper ed. 978-1-62672-162-3 $17.99 Graduating high-school seniors Josiah and Deja have worked together at DeKnock’s World Famous Pumpkin Patch & Autumn Jamboree every fall for the past...
Rainbow Rowell at Congregation Kehillath Israel
Rainbow Rowell and Margaret Willison (and Baz and Simon!). Photo: Shoshana Flax. Rainbow Rowell wrote Wayward Son in secret. A sequel to Carry On — a risky proposition itself, in that it’s set in the fictional universe for which the protagonist of her realistic novel Fangirl writes fanfiction (got...
The Book That Changed My Life: A Couple of Misfits
It’s obvious from the very beginning of Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park that the two of them are a couple of misfits. I couldn’t imagine how their worlds would overlap, much less merge, and I bet Eleanor and Park didn’t either. From being weird, misfitty friends, they gradually start to...
I Never Met a Fiction I Didn’t Like: Characters Creeping into Reality, from the March Sisters to Simon Snow
When @Call_Me_Gil started flirting with @AnneWith_An_E on Twitter, their followers took to calling them “Shirbert.”Yes, that’s two contemporary (fictional) young adults named Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe, no realer than the L. M. Montgomery characters who first appeared widely in 1908. In this modern-day webseries re-imagining, Anne (as played by...
Was Jo March a Ravenclaw? Authors, Fans, and Who Makes the Rules
Little Women illustration by Barbara Cooney (1955). Scarf composite by Charlotte Reber and Lolly Robinson.What are Harry Potter’s kids up to? Should Jo have married Professor Bhaer? Could Bella Swan have depended less on Edward? For many readers, part of being a fan is the desire to know more than...
Eleanor and Park | Class #2, 2016
Rainbow Rowell’s nontraditional romance novel Eleanor and Park portrays a young love that is genuine in its intimacy and awkwardness, as well as the painful realities of life that are well beyond the control of the young protagonists. What are the universal themes of this book distinctly set in the...
Review of Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow
Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snowby Rainbow RowellHigh School St. Martin’s Griffin 522 pp.10/15 978-1-250-04955-1 $19.99e-book ed. 978-1-4668-5054-5 $9.99In Fangirl (rev. 11/13), protagonist Cath wrote fanfiction for the fictitious “Simon Snow” fantasy series. Now Rowell has written a novel set in Simon Snow’s universe and using many...
Eleanor and Park
Rainbow Rowell’s nontraditional romance novel Eleanor and Park portrays a young love that is genuine in its intimacy and awkwardness, as well as the painful realities of life that are well beyond the control of the young protagonists. What are the entry points in the story for readers whose lives...
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