HaikuReview: If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period by Gennifer Choldenko

Now that I’m done will the Great Picture Book Read of ‘07, I’ve been catching up with some middle grade and YA books. It turns out that If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period was a great place to start. Gennifer Choldenko won the Newbery Honor, as well as the Sid Fleishman Humor Award, for her earlier book, Al Capone Does My Shirts. So, of course, I was eager to read her latest book. Bonus points: she’s also a really nice person.

I’m glad to say that I was completely pulled into this story of outcasts and friends, told by two alternating main characters. Intriguingly, Gennifer Choldenko decided to tell one character in first person and the second main character in third person. I’m not sure I’ve seen that before, but it really worked in this book. I’d love to know why she chose to tell it like that.

Okay, enough chit-chat. On with the Haiku!

Flashbacks to 7th grade,
Feeling queasy as I read.
She gets it spot on.

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