"I'll Give you the Sun" and "Night Gardener" - literally night and day. Apples and oranges. But both a battle between the 'good' and the 'evil' found in life.
Okay, so that is a little melodramatic - however, they are totally different books. Neither would be the book I would likely choose to read on my own (without the push of the Mighty Smackdown driving my reading selection I can safely say this is the truth), but I am glad I read both. Both were good reads. Not great, but good.
SO, with all of this being said, I am putting my final vote on "The Night Gardener". A little Coraline-ish at times in its creepiness - sure to catch the imagination of many young teens. "I'll Give you the Sun", although a good story, was a wee bit mature for many junior high readers (and since I often think "hmmm, would my students enjoy this?"....)
That's it. That's all I have to say.
DP
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