The Horn Book Magazine, May 1st, 2005
Julie Anne Peters Far from Xanadu 282 pp. Tingley/Little 5/05 ISBN 0-316-15881-X $16.99 g (High School)
A decade after M. E. Kerr's straight-up look at lesbian gender roles in Deliver Us from Evie (rev. 1/95), Peters sets another strong-willed butch in a small midwestern farming town. Mike's easy acceptance of who she is extends to her close-knit community, and Peters translates this nicely by allowing Mike to introduce herself in the first chapter without mentioning gender at all; we don't know she's a girl until the moment the new girl in town realizes it. Mike falls hard for gorgeous cit...
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