Tender Morsels
School year: Lower 6th, Upper 6th, Year 10, Year 11, Year 8, Year 9
No. of pages 496
Published: 2010
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This book is the winner of numerous awards
This book is part of a book series called Playaway Young Adult .
There are 496 pages in this book.
It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.
This book was published in 2010 by Penguin Random House Children's UK .
Margo Lanagan is a versatile writer, and an editor. She combines a sure sense of plot, startling use of language, and a deep understanding of teenage emotions.
This book is in the following series:
This book has been nominated for the following award:
Michael L Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature - YA
This book was recognised in the YA category by the Michael L Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.
"Funny, tragic, wise, tender and beautifully written. It also left me gasping with shock . . . It is with a mixture of respect and delight that I greet any book capable of blasting an entire genre out of the water with its audacity and grace. Tender Morsels is such a book" -- Meg Rosoff * Guardian *
"A striking retelling of the Grimms' Snow White and Rose Red, told in a rich yet remote prose style, it is, like Lanagan's awardwinning collection of short stories, Red Spikes, likely to appeal to teenage girls with a taste for the original and the sinister" -- Amanda Craig * The Times *
"A work of genius" -- Dinah Hall * Sunday Telegraph *
"It's a rewardingly complex and emotional story told in highly imaginative prose. The worlds Lanagan creates are so rich and multi-layered it's easy to get lost in the book's 500 pages, never wanting to leave" * Scotsman *
"Ambitious and difficult with multi-layered prose that will work its way into your very soul" -- Jill Murphy * The Bookbag *
