Like a contemporary version of The Wizard of Oz or its coming-of-age antecedent, Alice in Wonderland, Judy's experiences of adolescence are exhilarating, terrifying, and almost uniformly surreal. captures the way adolescence renders one's own identity somehow unknowable" - The Boston Globe on Big Girl Small "Amusing, hypnotic. Emma is a capable heroine who manages her disability with realism and grace." - School Library Journal More praise for Rachel DeWoskin: "Wonderfully engaging. for sheer emotional profundity and the elusive feeling of living another person's experience through fiction, DeWoskin is hard to beat." - SF Weekly "Heart-wrenching" " Blind is soon to be on the tips of everyone's tongues.", August 2014's Best YA Books, Praise for Blind : "A profound YA debut" - Publishers Weekly, starred review "A well-researched and much-needed story. allow readers to inhabit another person's soul so fully that they will be unable to separate the heroine's pain from their own and become a little less blind to human suffering. DeWoskin tells her tale with humor, hope, and powerful reality." - LMC " Blind. Emma is a capable heroine who manages her disability with realism and grace." - School Library Journal "The vivid text and the colorful descriptions allow the reader to imagine how and what a blind person sees. a vivid, sensory tour of the shifting landscapes of blindness and teen relationships" - Kirkus, starred review "A gracefully written, memorable, and enlightening novel." - Booklist "A well-researched and much-needed story. Praise for Blind : "A profound YA debut" - Publishers Weekly, starred review "With traces of John Green's Looking for Alaska.
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