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Prizes, Best-of Lists, & Reviews

California Book Award Gold Medal Winner
SCIBA YA Book of the Year
Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Awards Finalist

The Horn Book starred review
Publishers Weekly starred review
School Library Journal starred review
Publishers Weekly Best of 2013 list
A School Library Journal Best Books 2013
The Horn Book Fanfare—Best Books of 2013
Booklist Books for Youth Editors’ Choice: 2013
Summer 2013 Kids’ Indie Next List – Selected “The Top 10” category
An Amazon Best Book of 2013 (Teen & YA)
Audie Award Finalist 
Nominated for best-of-the-year status in 12 states: Oklahoma, Indiana, Tennessee, Arizona, Texas, South Carolina, California, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Vermont, Florida, and Nebraska


"Reminiscent of Hansel and Gretel . . . a masterful story of outcasts, the power of faith, and the triumph of good over evil" 
--Booklist, starred review 

"Enchanting, romantic, and tinged with terror, this modern story subtly weaves the haunting essentials of the fairy-tale tradition into a fascinating and beautifully written homage to its source material." 
--The Bulletin, starred review

"Sprightly, assured and original."   --The Toronto Star


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It says quite a lot about Jeremy Johnson Johnson that the strangest thing about him isn't even the fact his mother and father both had the same last name. Jeremy once admitted he's able to hear voices, and the townspeople of Never Better have treated him like an outsider since. After his mother left, his father became a recluse, and it's been up to Jeremy to support the family. But it hasn't been up to Jeremy alone. The truth is, Jeremy can hear voices. Or, specifically, one voice: the voice of the ghost of Jacob Grimm, one half of the infamous writing duo, The Brothers Grimm.

Jacob watches over Jeremy, protecting him from an unknown dark evil whispered about in the space between this world and the next. But when the provocative local girl Ginger Boultinghouse takes an interest in Jeremy (and his unique abilities), a grim chain of events is put into motion. And as anyone familiar with the Grimm Brothers know, not all fairy tales have happy endings...

First published by Knopf in 2013, Far Far Away is available as an unabridged audiobook from the Listening Library.  The edition published in the UK is shown below with its original cover art by the Cuban surrealist Arnays Camaraza Perez. View more of his work here.
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  • Tom
    • About Tom
    • To Be Sung Underwater
    • Goodnight, Nebraska
    • Far Far Away
  • Laura
    • About Laura
    • The Practice House
    • The Incident on the Bridge
    • Dark Water
    • You Can't Leave Me Now
  • Collaborations
    • Crooked
    • Zipped
    • Crushed
    • The Decoding of Lana Morris
  • News!