School Library Journal, November 1st, 2000
A teacher leads her class on a literary quest "THE SHOE! THE SHOE!" There was no longer any doubt about it. Dave's dramatic dash from the orphanage cinched it. His lost footwear was the last piece of evidence my fourth-grade class needed to be certain that Gail Carson Levine's Dave at Night (HarperCollins, 1999) was absolutely and indisputably a Cinderella story. Now hold on, I hear you saying, Dave at Night seems about as far from a fairy tale as you can get. It is about Jewish orphans, the Harlem Renaissance, and New York City in the 1920s. Where's the nasty stepfamily? The ball and fairy...
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