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The Real Boy
Had this just been a retelling of a beloved tale, I'd have been perfectly content. There's a new setting, a non-white, non-European cast, and a non-neurotypical lead. That would have been plenty, and I'd have been thrilled.
But then Ursu went and changed it up even more, took the story in an unexpected and much more adventurous direction, and gave me a story about kids who find their society lacking and act. This goes up there with Terry Pratchett's Nation, and Frances Hardinge's Lost Conspiracy as one of my favorite and most highly recommended adventure tales for the middle grades.
It's brilliant.
Library copy.
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