The Alex Crow — Andrew Smith

Skillfully blending multiple story strands that transcend time and place, award-winning "Grasshopper Jungle" author Andrew Smith chronicles the story of Ariel, a refugee who is the sole survivor of an attack on his small village. Now living with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, Ariel's story is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber and the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century ... and a depressed, bionic reincarnated crow.