Moriarty, Jaclyn. A Corner of White.

Moriarty, Jaclyn.  A Corner of White.  Scholastic/Arthur Levine  2013  373p  $17.99  ISBN 978-0-545-39736-0 hs          Fantasy     E-BN 

This is the story of two teens, Madeleine and Elliot, learning to live without their dads, but each lives in one of two parallel worlds. In the “real” world, Madeleine cannot understand why she and her mother left her dad, and why he doesn’t write back to her. In the “fantastical” world, Elliot is looking for his dad, who may in fact be dead. Madeleine and Elliot communicate and help each other via letters that they send through a crack that has opened between the two worlds.  This is an absolutely delightful read. The author has done a marvelous job of weaving together the “colors” of words to create a story that instantly draws in the reader.  Beginning with teenaged Madeleine, her quirky mother and friends and recent life in the fast lane, and moving to Elliot’s world, where colors take on certain characteristics, this was just a fun book to read. The foreshadowing of the plotline and the lives of the protagonists as we get to know them divulge some of the end of this book, but I still had difficulty putting the book down. All in all, it’s a very good book.      

Families, Fantasy                                                 --Lynn Fisher