“Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.”
From Stoneheart By Charlie Fletcher
Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher
Course: Writing for Children and Young People
Description: A city has many lives and layers. London has more than most. Not all the layers are underground, and not all the lives belong to the living. Twelve-year-old George Chapman is about to find this out the hard way. When, in a tiny act of rebellion, George breaks the head from a stone dragon outside the Natural History Museum, he awakes an ancient power. This power has been dormant for centuries but the results are instant and terrifying: A stone Pterodactyl unpeels from the wall and starts chasing George. He runs for his life but it seems that no one can see what he’s running from. No one, except Edie, who is also trapped in this strange world. And this is just the beginning as the statues of London awake… (From barnesandnoble.com)
Type of Literature: Young Adult (middle grade) Fantasy
Why I Like It: This novel pulls you in and keeps you out of breath for the entire ride. In every page new questions, new issues, new adventures burst off the page. Yet even with all that action and information Fletcher never leave the reader behind but draws them forward along with the main characters. What really works about this novel is that the main character is just as confused and unaware as the reader; character and reader learn about the strange world he's found himself in together. That link between the two is vital in keeping the suspense without a high level of confusion. I look forward to reading the other two books in the trilogy - Ironhand and Silvertongue - when I can find the time!
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