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Lu Zimmer’s best friend moved away last summer. Salman Page is the new kid in school. Blos Pease takes everything literally. Three kids who are on the fringe of the middle school social order find each other and warily begin to bond, but suddenly things start going wrong. Salman becomes the object of the school bully’s torment, and Lu’s pregnant mother has some unexpected complications. Is something conspiring against them?
In fact, through no fault of their own, Salman and Lu have become pawns in a game of jealous one-upmanship between Oberon and Titania, the king and queen of Faery, with the mischievous Puck trying to keep the peace.
Taken from Titania’s mention of a foundling in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A. C. E. Bauer spins an original tale about magical intervention in the least magical of settings: a public middle school.
A. C. E. Bauer has been telling stories ever since she could talk (some were real whoppers). After learning how to write them down, she began handing them out as gifts to her family. Ms. Bauer took a break from writing for a while when she was a lawyer helping poor people, writing legal briefs and telling stories about her clients. She has returned to fiction and now writes for children of all ages. Born and raised in Montreal, she spends most of the year in Cheshire, Connecticut, and much of the summer on a lake in Quebec. She lives with her husband, two children, and their dog, Speedy.
“The modern foster child story meets Shakespeare in this compelling young adult novel. Salman Page, new to Springfalls Junior High, tries to make himself as inconspicuous as possible as he rides out what he is sure will be a short placement with his newest foster family. His desire to go unnoticed is thwarted by the school’s mentoring program, which assigns Lu Zimmer to be his “designated buddy,” someone who will help Salman acclimate to his new school. However, Lu discovers that something is not quite normal about Salman. He seems to have a rather unusual relationship with a crow that follows him around as well as exhibiting an odd sort of grace with movement. With Lu and his other new acquaintance, Blos Pease, who appears to be on the autism spectrum, Salman decides to try a little harder to fit in, despite the fact that his new foster father does not really want him to stay. Intertwined with Salman’s story is a struggle over the boy between Titania, queen of the fairies and King Oberon that is being mediated by the faerie messenger Puck. Turns out Salman is the boy Titania pledges to keep from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” While the boy does not appear in the actual play, Bauer here creates a full-fledged and well-rounded character for him. While readers unfamiliar with the play may not grasp the full meaning of the Midsummer Night chapters, the story of Salman, Lu and Blos is enough to keep most readers hooked. Again, Bauer has again produced a top-notch young adult novel that perhaps will send a few readers off to examine Shakespeare’s play.”
–Children’s Literature
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