Hmm. Perhaps wait for the MMPB of Book 2? It'll be cheaper, and thus more likely to be worth the cash ;-) Still, don't think I'll be adding this one to my wishlist.
I'll probably get the second when it comes out this year, and while I don't know if this helps, I preferred this to the Gemma Malley book I read late last year. Though, they're completely different stories. :)
Now, I can't wait where it's shelved in the stores, as I've never seen it in the stores, but Amazon labels it as grade 8 and up, and that's fair, though I might hand this to a fifth grader. While the book doesn't talk down to its older readers, there is a certain simplicity that I mentioned before that bars it from feeling YA to me.
It's interesting that you said that, because I heard Dom Testa speak, and got to chat with him a little, when the this book was in pre-release of its Tor edition (ALA Midwinter 2009). I definitely got the impression then that he was gearing it more toward upper-middle-schoolers (6th/7th grade), with an eye toward "maturing" the series into YA as it goes and the plot and issues get more sophisticated. That said, we did end up putting the book in YA instead of juvenile (MPOW doesn't have a separate middle-school fiction section); we find kids are more likely to try to read above their level than condescend to read below it.
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It didn't feel young to me like The Declaration did, so that was good. If it'd felt THAT young, I wouldn't consider reading the rest of the books.
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It's interesting that you said that, because I heard Dom Testa speak, and got to chat with him a little, when the this book was in pre-release of its Tor edition (ALA Midwinter 2009). I definitely got the impression then that he was gearing it more toward upper-middle-schoolers (6th/7th grade), with an eye toward "maturing" the series into YA as it goes and the plot and issues get more sophisticated. That said, we did end up putting the book in YA instead of juvenile (MPOW doesn't have a separate middle-school fiction section); we find kids are more likely to try to read above their level than condescend to read below it.
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