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PRAISE
National Book Award Finalist
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner
New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year
Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards – Honor Book
Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
Chicago Public Library Best Books for Children and Teens
American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
REVIEWS
★ "Subversive, vigorously conceived, painfully situated at the juncture where funny crosses into tragic, FEED demonstrates that young-adult novels are alive and well and able to deliver a jolt." - New York Times
★ "M.T. Anderson has created the perfect device for an ingenious satire of corporate America and our present-day value system ... Like those in a funhouse mirror, the reflections the novel shows us may be ugly and distorted, but they are undeniably ourselves." - The Horn Book Review
★ "The crystalline realisation of this wildly dystopic future carries in it obvious and enormous implications for today’s readers — satire at its finest." - Kirkus Reviews
★ "This satire offers a thought-provoking and scathing indictment that may prod readers to examine the more sinister possibilities of corporate-and media-dominated culture." - Publishers Weekly
★ "What really puts the teeth in the bite ... is Anderson’s brilliant satiric vision in the seamless creation of this imagined but believable world. The writing is relentlessly funny, clever in its observations and characters." - Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
★ "In spite of its foreboding overtones, FEED is in a sense an optimistic novel. By involving its readers in the act it suggests is central to society’s survival, the book offers hope." - Riverbank Review
★ "Although set in the future, Anderson’s novel is a stunning indictment of contemporary America and its ever-increasing obsession with consumerism even in the face of impending environmental collapse . . . the novel is both intense and grim. It should, however, appeal strongly to mature and thoughtful readers who care about the future of their world." - VOYA
★ "This dystopic vision is dark but quite believable. Sad and strong and scary." - Chicago Tribune
★ "The book is fast, shrewd, slang-filled and surprisingly engaging." - New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year
★ "This wickedly funny and thought-provoking novel is written in a slang so hip it is spoken only by the characters in this book. Teens will want to read it at least twice." - Miami Herald
★ "A darkly comic satire that can be read as a promise or a warning." - Detroit Free Press
