Black, H.,
& Naifeh, T. (2008). The good neighbors. New York: Graphix.
Rue Silver’s
mother has been gone for over 3 weeks.
Her dad can’t function with her mom missing and Rue starts to see
strange looking things, but thinks her eyes are playing tricks on her. As Rue is out one night with her friends her
dad gets arrested for murder. The police
think he murdered a student of his and possibly her mother. Rue’s mother returns, but is it really her
mother? Rue also discovers she is half
faerie. As Rue continues on her quest to
find out about her mother and what happened to her she encounters her
grandfather, whom she has never met, and other creatures she thought were only
myths.
Black is the
master of fantasy. As she did with The Spiderwick Chronicles she draws us
into Rue’s story of human and faerie world colliding. Rue has grown up not knowing anything but a
human life although she does notice things that her mom does that seem somewhat
strange, she takes it in as “normal” for her mom. Black starts The Good Neighbor series at the start of the conflict of Rue’s mom
missing, her dad being arrested, and her grandfather showing up all of a
sudden. Through the story and black and
white illustrations the story gives us enough that we believe all of this could
happen to Rue and we believe there are faeries among us, if only we can have
the “sight” ourselves. Middle school and up would enjoy this book.
The
Good Neighbors: Book Two Kith by Holly Black
The
Good Neighbors: Book Three Kind by Holly Black
Also by Holly Black:
The
Spiderwick Chronicles
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