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Maggot Moon

Gardner, S. (2013). Maggot moon. Boston, MA: Candlewick Press.

Media Type: Audiobook

Narrated by Robert Madge

Length: 3h 38m

Release Date: Feb. 12, 2013

Award: Printz Honor Book 2014

Summary:

This award winning book is told in first- person voice by the protagonist Standish Tredwell. Standish lives in a grim world where disappearances are the norm. He is also very unique in that he has one blue and one brown eye. He also cannot read or write which has made him the target of bullies from his school. His parents were taken away and since has been living with his Gramps on Zone 7. Then one day he meets a Hector, a young boy about his age who moved next door. Soon they discover a secret tunnel that can take them to the Mother Land. When Hector and his parents are taken away Standish goes and tries to find them and get them out of there. Standish is determined to make amends to Hector by pulling off a stunt that will humiliate the government and reveal a massive scam the government is perpetrating. He knows that he will probably be killed, but he does it anyway and ends up getting shot.

Response:

This book is set in a dystopian world. It bears resemblance to Nazi Germany in nature, with an overarching and dictatorial Motherland. Suppression of the individual and rule by fear is the order of the day. Standish Treadwell is the first person voice of this novel. There are quite a few very short chapters, and the writing style is very straight and to the point.

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