Julie Suzanne's Reviews > A Single Shard

It’s a beautiful story. I think that it would be a hard sell to my students. Much of the book describes at length the process of creating pots, which was really interesting to me, but I think it might be a little bit too slow for my Middle School students’ self-selected reading. It would appeal to a patient, thoughtful reader. Major literary merit, of course, and I can see why it won the Newbery Award.