named a 2011 Lariat Book by the Texas Library Association
What is a Lariat Book? I thought you might ask. Here is what their website says:
"At last, the grownups have their day! TLA has rightfully earned a stellar reputation for its many outstanding youth reading lists. The annual list of Lariat award winners calls attention to outstanding fiction published during the year that merit special attention from adult readers. The main criteria for selecting books for the Lariat List is that they are ‘a pleasure to read.’”