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Rex Zero and the End of the World
Tim Wynne-Jones · 2007
85/100
👍 Worth It
Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor and starred reviews from Horn Book and Publishers Weekly are not handed out lightly, and Wynne-Jones earns every one of them here. Rex's voice is funny, specific, and alive, and the way the novel holds nuclear terror and neighborhood kid drama in the same frame is genuinely skilled storytelling.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety88
substance84
craft88
originality86
accuracy85
hype82
age-fit82
human-eye87
Penny’s verdict85
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