Criss Cross (novel)
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| First edition cover - early printing | |
| Author | Lynne Rae Perkins |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Greenwillow Books |
| Released | September 2005 |
| Media Type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 368 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-06-009272-6 (first edition, hardback) |
Criss Cross is a novel by Lynne Rae Perkins that won the 2006 Newbery Medal for excellence in children's literature.
The book, set in the 1960s or 1970s, centers on the coming-of-age of four small-town teenagers. Though the town is never named, several of the book's illustrations echo Cheswick, Pennsylvania, a suburb fourteen miles northeast of Pittsburgh where Perkins was born and raised.
"Writing in a wry, omniscient third-person narrative voice, Perkins deftly captures the tentativeness and incompleteness of adolescence," said Award Committee Chair Barbara Barstow. "In 38 brief chapters, this poetic, postmodern novel experiments with a variety of styles: haiku, song lyrics, question-and-answer dialogue and split-screen scenarios. With seeming yet deliberate randomness, Perkins writes an orderly, innovative, and risk-taking book in which nothing happens and everything happens."
| Preceded by Kira-Kira |
Newbery Medal recipient 2006 |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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