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Article: The Color of Absence: Twelve Stories about Loss and Hope.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
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- September 1, 2001
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James Howe, editor The Color of Absence: Twelve Stories about Loss and Hope 238 pp. Atheneum 7/01 ISBN 0-689-82862-4 16.00 (Middle School, High School)
"The very act of aging sets human beings up for loss." While contributor Angela Johnson makes this observation about the universality of loss, the variety of these stories reflects the many different ways in which it can be experienced. In the only fantasy entry, "Summer of Love," Annette Curtis Klause covers familiar ground--the death of a pet--but from the chilling, yet touching, perspective of a teenage vampire. Two stories effectively convey emotional absence as a loss. In Johnson's "Atomic Blue Pieces," the ...
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