Gail Giles
Take 5: L is for Liar – the Unreliable Narrator
I’ve heard people discuss the ‘unreliable narrator’ for years, but I never really understood the joy or appreciation of this narrative mode – until I read Rebecca Stead’s Liar and Spy. (Which fabulously just won the Guardian children’s fiction prize.) Maybe it’s because Georges is really hiding from circumstances he can’t handle, maybe it’s because […]
Top 10 Tuesday: From Beyond the Grave
In the end, life inevitably always ends in death. Death and taxes you know. A lot of teens can avoid the taxes part, but they often get to the death part too early, especially in teen fiction. But death is a funny thing, and you don’t always stay dead. Or you hang out in limbo […]
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