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Feeling Sorry for Celia

3/5. Cute YA epistolary novel about an Australian teenager dealing with teenaged stuff through sticky note conversations with her mother and letter exchanges with her pen pal. Sweet, with a light touch even for very serious stuff happening – a pregnancy scare, breakups, first kisses, family drama, best friend drama, a sorta kinda suicide attempt. It's charming and I would totally get this for a teen, or even a precocious tween. Though that would probably require answering a lot of questions about why they don't just email each other and WTF is this fax nonsense. Note this was published in 2000.
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A Corner of White, The Cracks in the Kingdom, A Tangle of Gold

4/5. Young adult fantasy trilogy about a boy and girl who begin exchanging letters through a crack between Cambridge and a magical kingdom where colors run wild and may kill you or change you forever.

Delightful. This has a perfectly pitched mix of whimsy and complexity. More than once I thought a character existed merely to be funny or to add to the scenery, only to discover, a twist of plot or emotion later, something much deeper and more complex. Also, this is epistolary done right, which is my kryptonite.

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