Reviews, Awards, Honors: Lord Kirkle's Money
(Beyond the Western Sea, Book 2)

Reviews

Booklist: "[A] .  .  . pulsing 1850s emigrant adventure. .  .  . packed with action and with a huge cast of villains and heroes. .  .  . Great for reading aloud, the vivid scenes and larger-than-life characters also lend themselves to readers' theater. The comedy is both grotesque and sinister. As in Dickens' works, coincidence is not just a plot surprise but a revelation that those who appear to be far apart—the powerful and the ‘failures’—are, in fact, intimately connected.”

Awards and Honors

Best books for Young Adults, ALA, 1997
Notable, National Council of Social Studies/Children's Book Council, 1997
Starred Review, Booklist, 1996
Best Books of the Year, Booklinks, 1996
Best Books of the Year, Book List, 1996
New York Public Library, Best Books of the Year, 1996
Blue Ribbon, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 1997
Children's choice nominee, Vermont