Jackdaw Summer
{{short description|2008 book by David Almond}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Jackdaw Summer
| image = Jackdaw Summer.jpg
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| caption = First edition
| author = David Almond
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| country = England
| language = English
| genre =Children's fiction
| published = 2008 (Hodder Children's Books)
| media_type = Print (hardback)
| pages = 219
| isbn = 9780340881989
| oclc = 782010168
}}
Jackdaw Summer (US. title Raven Summer) is a 2008 book by David Almond. It is about two boys, Liam and Max, who, on following a jackdaw, find an abandoned baby.
Reception
A BookTrust review wrote "Friendship, loyalty and truth are explored through a cast of complex characters in this compelling story. While often tense, it ends on a note of hope."{{cite web |url=http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/view/29033 |title=Jackdaw Summer |website=booktrust.org.uk |accessdate=16 December 2016}} and The Guardian wrote "This is a thoughtful and claustrophobic snapshot of people's lives, showing how they have come to be who they are that one summer. This may not be Almond's best book to date, but he has only himself to blame for having set the bar so high; Jackdaw Summer is a wonderful piece of writing for children - unsettling yet poetic."{{cite news |last=Ardagh |first=Philip |date=1 November 2008 |title=Jackdaw Summer by David Almond |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/nov/01/jackdaw-summer-almond |newspaper=The Guardian |accessdate=16 December 2016}}
Publishers Weekly in a starred review, wrote "In a thought-provoking coming-of-age story, British writer Almond (Skellig ; Clay ) delves into the darkest realm of the human psyche as he expresses the conflicting urges of an adolescent." "Almond tackles complex questions about humanity from multiple points of view; flashes of wisdom—sometimes painful, sometimes uplifting—arrive at unexpected moments."{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-385-73806-4 |title=Raven Summer |date=9 November 2009 |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher=PWxyz LLC|accessdate=16 December 2016}} and Common Sense Media called it "a unique find."{{cite web |url=https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/raven-summer |title=Raven Summer |website=www.commonsensemedia.org |date=21 April 2010 |publisher=Common Sense Media Inc |accessdate=17 December 2016}}
A Kirkus Reviews starred review wrote "With a storyteller’s flair and a poet’s precision, Almond reveals the fierce intensity of childhood, and this rare acknowledgment permeates his latest novel set in England’s Northumberland in the time of Bush and Blair." and called it a "hypnotic, sensuous foray into the nature of war, truth, art and the savagery of humanity."{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-almond/raven-summer/ |title=Raven Summer |date=15 October 2009 |website=Kirkus Reviews |publisher=Kirkus Media LLC |accessdate=17 December 2016}}
Jackdaw Summer has also been reviewed by
Viewpoint: on books for young adults,{{cite journal |date=2009 |title=Review : Jackdaw Summer by David Almond |url=http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30062205 |journal=Viewpoint: On Books for Young Adults |publisher=University of Melbourne |volume=17 |issue=2 |page=31 |accessdate=17 December 2016}} Booklist, BookPage, Library Media Connection magazine, The Horn Book Magazine, The School Library Journal, VOYA,{{cite web |url=https://catalog.wccls.org/Mobile/BakerAndTaylor/Review?ISBN=9780375893858&UPC=9780375893858&position=1 |title=Raven Summer |website=catalog.wccls.org |accessdate=17 December 2016}} The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books,{{cite journal |date=February 2010 |title=New Books For Children And Young People |author=Deborah Stevenson|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/371875 |journal=The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |volume=63 |issue=6 |pages=232, 233 |accessdate=17 December 2016}} Reading Time,{{cite journal |date=May 2009 |title=Jackdaw Summer |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/41023144/jackdaw-summer |journal=Reading Time |publisher=Children's Book Council of Australia |volume=53 |issue=2 |page=29 |accessdate=17 December 2016}}{{dead link|date=November 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} and School Librarian.{{cite journal |date=March 2009 |title=Jackdaw Summer |author=Laura Ciftci |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/37001976/jackdaw-summer |journal=School Librarian |publisher=School Library Association |volume=57 |issue=1 |page=48 |accessdate=17 December 2016}}{{dead link|date=November 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
References
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Category:2008 children's books
Category:British children's novels