Hope Jahren

Sep 6, 2024 | nytimes.com | Hope Jahren

ADVENTURES OF MARY JANE, by Hope JahrenEarlier this year, the prolific writer Percival Everett released a critically acclaimed novel, "James," that adopts as its conceit the story of Jim from "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" as told by Jim himself. Though its intended audience is very different from that of "James," Hope Jahren's first novel and first book for young readers, "Adventures of Mary Jane," tries something similar.

Jun 19, 2024 | bookriot.com | Hope Jahren |Kim Johnson |Tiffany Jackson |Kalynn Bayron

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May 26, 2024 | slj.com | Hope Jahren |Kelly Kingrey-Edwards |Yoon Ha |Dos Santos

. Jun. 2024. 464p. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9780593484111. COPY ISBN Gr 7 Up–In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain gives a scant 30-or-so pages to Mary Jane, “the red-headed one.” Twain’s readers are left with the confidence that Mary Jane has stolen Huck’s heart, but no backstory to explain how or why this should be so. In this companion piece to Twain’s classic, Jahren delivers Mary Jane’s story in vivid, heart-pounding, nail-biting, soul-stirring detail.

May 13, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Hope Jahren

June 2024. 464p. Delacorte, $19.99 (9780593484111). Grades 9-12. REVIEW. First published May 15, 2024 (Booklist). In protagonist Mary Jane, the author has borrowed a minor character from Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Indeed, many of the characters in this near-epic adventure come from Twain’s classic, while others are borrowed from real life.

Mar 23, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Hope Jahren |Ben Philippe |Patricia Mccormick

This book soars: Huck Finn has met his match in a wildly appealing, smart, and courageous girl. Celebrated scientist and bestselling adult nonfiction author Jahren has chosen as the subject of her fiction debut the girl Huck Finn describes as “just full of sand…beauty—and goodness too.” Fourteen-year-old Mary Jane is content to live with her mother and grandfather on the Minnesota frontier, shifting from a remote fur-trading outpost in winter to the comforts of Fort Snelling in summer.