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Gr 10 Up—This exquisitely well-balanced novel-in-verse is painful to read yet almost impossible to put down. Told in a series of titled poems, it weaves in and out over a time line spanning most of 17-year-old Joe Moon's life, alternating between the present, in which Joe is spending his summer in a dusty small town in Texas, visiting his older brother Ed who is on death row, and moments in the past. Readers catch glimpses ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this verse novel, Joe, seventeen, is reacquainted with his older brother Ed, who's on death row, just befor...Log In or Sign Up to Read More