num_pages: 189
description: *Winner 2007 Saskatchewan Book Award for Children's Literature*Shortlisted for the 2007 Saskatchewan Book Award for FictionAward-winning author R.P. MacIntyre provokes his YA following with another round of masterful storytelling. Rife with themes of bewilderment, menace, and transformation, Macintyre's fiction and fables invade in the big questions of youth, revealing in the answers, snapshots of life at the crossroads of adulthood - what we give up and what we gain, and what we must become. Award-winning author R.P. MacIntyre offers his teen following another round of masterful, provocative storytelling. With themes of bewilderment, menace, and transformation, Macintyre's fiction and fables reveal snapshots of life at the crossroads of adulthood - what we give up and what we gain, and what we must become.Whether confronting the death of strangers, tempting fate in defying the supernatural, or aching with dangerous vulnerability in the shadows of violence, the players in Feeding At Nine share their astonishment and confusion at life's ambushes and offer a fresh take on the charm and brutality of growing up.
language: English
title: Feeding At Nine
titlecomplete: Feeding At Nine
ratings_count: 2
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Saskatchewan Book Award
category: Children's Literature (winner) and Fiction (nominee)
publisher: Thistledown Press