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gschwabauer 's review for:

4.0

Now THIS was the sort of middle-grade novel I've been hoping to read this summer.

As is so often the case, some loose ends tied up a little too neatly at the end, but this novel's setting, situation, and characters were so creative and so compelling that I was quite willing to forgive. (I also forgave the mildly unrealistic premise.) Leslie Connor's use of detail and understatement is masterful, and while a few situations were oversimplified, others were wonderfully nuanced. I'll be thinking about Perry for a while.