The Blue Between the Clouds

"Pull out the best adjectives for a luminous comic novel—Wunderli's first—about two boys coming of age in 1939 in Thistle, Utah. At his grandfather's wish, Two Moons—a Navajo—lives with Matt's family in order to go to school. When the boys are 11, Two Mooms goes through the Navajo ceremony to become a man. Matt's induction into adulthood is wilder and funnier, a wonderfully realized fantasy....The story is memorably tuned to the need for fantasy and hope in every life." —Kirkus, pointer.