So Loud a Silence

So Loud a Silence is a 1996 young adult novel by Lyll Becerra de Jenkins. It is about a teenager, Juan Guillermo, who leaves Bogotá to live with his grandmother on a farm in the Colombian countryside.

So Loud a Silence
AuthorLyll Becerra de Jenkins
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
GenreYoung adult novel
Published1996 (Lodestar books)
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages154
ISBN9780525675389
OCLC34850308

Reception

Kirkus Reviews wrote "A moiled, disappointingly passionless view of a people burdened by grief and fear after years of unchecked violence."[1] while Publishers Weekly described it as "An intimate coming-of-age story, against a backdrop of terrorism and loss."[2]

So Loud a Silence has also been reviewed by ALAN Review,[3] Booklist,[4] School Library Journal.[5] The Horn Book Magazine[6] Book Report,[7] and Multicultural Review.[8]

It is a 1996 CCBC Choices book,[9] and a 1996 Américas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature honor book.[10]

See also

References
  1. "So Loud a Silence". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Media LLC. August 15, 1996. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  2. "So Loud a Silence". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz LLC. October 2, 1996. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  3. Gretchen Schwarz (1997). Gary M. Salvner; Virginia R. Monseau (eds.). "Clip and File Reviews of New Fiction Hardbacks". ALAN Review. The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents. 24 (3). Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  4. Hazel Rochman. "Books For Older Readers: Fiction". Booklist. Vol. 93 no. 2. American Library Association. p. 230. Retrieved October 9, 2020. Here the political story of contemporary Colombia and 17-year-old Juan's family quest never really come together, despite the author's deliberate attempts to manipulate the plot in order to get the message across.
  5. Carol A. Edwards (December 1996). "Junior High Up: Fiction". School Library Journal. Vol. 42 no. 12. Media Source Inc. p. 136. Retrieved October 9, 2020. Those looking for a superb encore to de Jenkins's earlier books are bound to be somewhat disappointed, wishing for more depth than they are given here.
  6. Cathryn M Mercier (January 1997). "So Loud a Silence". Horn Book Guides. Vol. 73 no. 1. Media Source Inc. p. 58. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  7. Carol A Burbridge (March 1997). "Reviews: Fiction". Book Report. 15 (5): 33. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  8. "So Loud a Silence". Multicultural Review. 6 (1): 93. March 1997. Archived from the original on 2020-10-11. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  9. Kathleen T. Horning; Ginny Moore Kruse; Megan Schliesman (1997). "16 Fiction For Teenagers". CCBC Choices 1996 (PDF). Cooperative Children's Book Center. p. 55. Retrieved October 9, 2020. Layers of a family story are revealed in the midst of tense and tenuous times in Lyll Becerra de Jenkins's eye-opening, radical novel set in Colombia today.
  10. "Appendices: Bibliography of Américas Award Winners & Honorable Mentions (1993-2018)". Celebrating 25 Years of the Américas Award 1993-2018: Resources to Honor Latinx Literature Within and Beyond the Classroom (PDF). Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs. p. 63. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
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