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The Good Neighbors
Kin
By Black, Holly
Publishers Summary:
Sixteen-year-old Rue Silver, whose mother disappeared weeks ago, believes she is going crazy until she learns that the strange things she has been seeing are real, and that she is one of the faerie creatures, or Good Neighbors, that mortals cannot see.
- ISBN
- 978-0-43985-562-4
- Publisher
- Graphix Scholastic
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2008
Gr 8-Up After her mother suddenly disappears, Rue Silver finds out that the woman was a faerie. Rue's father, Thaddeus, a human, is suspected of murdering her, as well as one of his students. As Rue solves these two mysteries, she also finds out mo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
This goth-faerie mystery/thriller taps into two fairy-tale traditions: the swan-human and the fate of faerie and mortal lovers. In Black's first graphic novel, Rue Silver has recently begun seeing faerie beings where others see no one; when her mother disappears and her professor father is accused of the murder of one of his students, the truth about her extraordinary visions and mixed faerie/human bl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on April 1, 2009
Black's first graphic novel is a goth-faerie mystery/thriller. After Rue's mother disappears and her father is accused of murder, th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on September 1, 2008
"I don't worry that my mother's been away for more than three weeks," Rue says to herself. "Or that my dad hasn't gone to work since she left. That's okay. Sometimes we ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
