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Sixteen-year-old Maggy's life consists of trying to be invisible at school, taking care of her alcoholic mother, and spending all the time she can at the Blue Mirror, a downtown café. She can lose herself there for hours with a cappuccino and her sketchbook, in which she creates a paper world she calls "The Blue Mirror." But everything changes when she meets Cole, a charismatic runaway. Maggy is intrigued by Cole's risky life on the streets and by the girls who follow him, childlike Jouly and strange Marianne. And when Cole says that he loves her, Maggy comes alive. As Maggy becomes more entwined with Cole and she looks at him with...

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Overview

Some guys are bad news

Sixteen-year-old Maggy's life consists of trying to be invisible at school, taking care of her alcoholic mother, and spending all the time she can at the Blue Mirror, a downtown café. She can lose herself there for hours with a cappuccino and her sketchbook, in which she creates a paper world she calls "The Blue Mirror." But everything changes when she meets Cole, a charismatic runaway. Maggy is intrigued by Cole's risky life on the streets and by the girls who follow him, childlike Jouly and strange Marianne. And when Cole says that he loves her, Maggy comes alive. As Maggy becomes more entwined with Cole and she looks at him with all her heart, she sees something far more dangerous than she may be capable of handling.

In poetic and evocative language, Kathe Koja draws us into the haunting, passionate world of The Blue Mirror.

Seventeen-year-old loner Maggy Klass, who frequently seeks refuge from her alcoholic mother's apartment by sitting and drawing in a local cafe, becomes involved in a destructive relationship with a charismatic homeless youth named Cole.

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The title takes on many connotations in Koja's (Buddha Boy) eerie, psychologically gripping urban tale. The Blue Mirror doubles as the name of the caf where narrator Maggy Klass seeks refuge from the claustrophobic apartment she shares with her mostly drunk mother, but it also becomes the filter through which she begins to see clearly the world outside-and herself. Her only friend, Casey, works at the caf ; Maggy's booth is "the one right under the window, blue-tinted window almost as big as the wall, showing caf and street in equal reflections." From her perch she draws everything she sees, and signs her drawings "mags" ("mags is my secret name, my alias or nom de plume or whatever an artist would call it... even Casey doesn't know about mags"). One winter day, she spies "Prince Charming on a street corner." After a time, she discovers his name, Cole, and he leads her out of her sacred space in the Blue Mirror to his world of the streets. Koja creates an indeterminate urban setting, grounded in specifics. Cole takes Maggy to the Wishing Well, where he compares its ice crystals to "trapped stars"; he shows her the riverbank where the "skwatters" stay; and he calls her mags ("How do you know my name?"). The novel teems with characters that possess the same kind of edgy, dangerous magic as Francesca Lia Block's creations, and, like Block, Koja explores the confusion between infatuation and real love-in all its cruelty and its redemptive powers. Ages 12-up. (Mar.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Children's Literature
As Oprah says, "Everyone has a story," even the young people who wander the streets in bizarre get-ups and you are thinking, "Why aren't they in school?" Sixteen year-old Maggy is just such a person. Living anything but ordinary life, Maggy is the responsible person looking out for her alcoholic mother. Her father has left them to fend for themselves, so Maggy spends a lot of her time at the local coffeehouse, The Blue Mirror, sketching the characters that come and go as a way to escape reality. Overwhelmed by loneliness and anomie, she is drawn to a boy she has seen among the homeless street people. Cole is handsome and sure of himself and has noticed Maggy in her favorite booth. Maggy is drawn into his coterie of homeless girls similar in age to Maggy. At first, Maggy is duped by the attention and "love" that Cole shows her, but as she gets to know him better she begins to see him for what he is. This interesting story of a teen on her journey to adulthood provides a taste of reality and illuminates the complex rather than simple choices that face teens daily. Using some adult themes and language, the story ends on a positive note with the help of others who truly care about Maggy. 2004, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Ages 14 to 18.
—Meredith Kiger, Ph.D.
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KLIATT
Koja writes with great artistry—her words sometimes work as brushes creating paintings; her prose is close to poetry. This works well in her acclaimed YA novel Buddha Boy, about artists. The Blue Mirror is also about an adolescent artist who loses herself in the world she calls the Blue Mirror, the world she creates through her drawings. Maggie is 17 years old, confused and lonely as she lives with her alcoholic mother. She likes to hang out in a café in the evenings, escaping her home life that isn't a home life. It's there that she becomes aware of the homeless young people living on the streets, stealing, getting drugs, living on the edges of Maggie's world. She draws them. She sees a beautiful young man and can't resist getting to know him, falling in love with him, disregarding his weaknesses and his power over young street girls. Strangely, she is unable to draw him—a symptom of her blindness as to his true nature. Her friend at the café warns her, but she can't see the truth. When the young man, Cole, invades the home Maggie and her mother share, then Maggie begins to see that she doesn't belong to him really. Her eyes are opened and she is horrified at the cruelty with which he controls the girls around him. At this point, she is able to capture him in a drawing. The world on the streets that Maggie enters briefly is a dark one. She has casual sex with Cole, powerless to resist him. There are drugs, petty crimes, hunger, loneliness, disease, lost souls. This is a brief and powerful story. It is understandable that Maggie is drawn to Cole and his life, because she too feels she has no real home. Fortunately, she is strong enough to pull back before beingswallowed up by Cole and his destructive ways. There will be an audience for this fine short work of fiction. KLIATT Codes: S—Recommended for senior high school students. 2004, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 119p., Ages 15 to 18.
—Claire Rosser
VOYA
At sixteen, Maggie does not have a lot in her life—an alcoholic mother, a missing father, and no interest in school—so she spends most of her time drawing in her sketchbook at the Blue Mirror, a downtown café, and takes pride in her talent to see people. When Cole, a street youth, shows an interest in her drawing, Maggie believes that he is the only person who will understand and love her. But Cole uses Maggie for meals, steals from her mother, tricks her into shoplifting, and finally gets her thrown out of the Blue Mirror, her refuge. Only when she recognizes how Cole manipulates and controls, can Maggie finally see and draw the real Cole in her sketchbook. Koja chooses to write Maggie's story in a disjointed voice. The rambling sentences, while providing a distinct voice for Maggie's thoughts, become more difficult to push through as one delves further into the book. Koja's use of slang—street youth are "skwatters"—can be distracting. Nevertheless she doesn't hold back when it comes to portraying homelessness—cold, hungry, dirty, dangerous. Readers will recognize Cole's threat much earlier than Maggie does and will be pleased when, even though Maggie's home life is no better by the end of the story, she finally finds strength in herself and not on the streets. VOYA Codes: 3Q 4P J (Readable without serious defects; Broad general YA appeal; Junior High, defined as grades 7 to 9). 2004, Farrar Straus Giroux, 128p., Ages 12 to 15.
—Joyce Doyle
School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up-Maggy, a gifted artist, keeps a sketchbook called "The Blue Mirror" that shares its name with the coffeehouse where she regularly nurses a cappuccino for hours and draws what she sees. Tourists, bicycle cops, and especially the homeless kids or "skwatters" are her regular subjects. The 16-year-old crosses this metaphorical mirror (just like Alice in Through the Looking Glass) when she meets an attractive skwatter who takes a keen interest in her. Staring into the deep dark eyes of Cole, Mags forgets about her disastrous home life and feels as if she has finally met someone who understands her. She soon learns, however, that Cole is no Prince Charming, and she must find the strength to escape from his clutches. What makes this novel distinct is the stream-of-consciousness prose style that creates the illusion of everything happening at once, with Mags seamlessly slipping into and out of her mundane world and into "The Blue Mirror" with Cole. While her mother tends toward the stereotypical drunk who takes up space on the couch, and the secondary characters are a bit sketchy, Mags is a plucky protagonist, and readers will appreciate the ingenuity she musters to address her problems. Fans of Carol Plum-Ucci's What Happened to Lani Garver (Harcourt, 2002) and outsider themes will appreciate the gritty urban scenes and rhythmic language that give the book an almost surreal ambience.-Kelly Czarnecki, Bloomington Public Library, IL Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
Sixteen-year-old Maggy escapes daily to the Blue Mirror, a downtown coffee shop, and her journal of artwork that shares the name. Recording all that she sees in her fictional paper world, she is surprised when she is unable to capture the face of the one person whom she most wants to draw: Cole. The handsome and dangerous Cole, the angry Marianne, and the innocent Jouly intrigue Maggy, and she follows them into their world of runaways, shoplifting, and panhandling. Soon Maggy is tempted to drop out of her life completely, leaving school, her alcoholic mother, and her warm home for a life on the streets. Bound to him by love, excitement, and fear, Maggy must confront the fact that Cole might be more dangerous than she ever imagined. A richly embroidered tale of abuse and control highlighted with shiny threads of magic and redemption. (Fiction. YA)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780374308490
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publication date: 3/5/2004
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 128
  • Sales rank: 572,247
  • Age range: 14 - 18 Years
  • Lexile: 1130L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.66 (w) x 8.62 (h) x 0.67 (d)

Meet the Author

Kathe Koja is the author of Buddha Boy and straydog. She lives in the Detroit area.

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  • Posted December 7, 2010

    Great book! Good read for anyone.

    Incredibly heart wrenching, Koja emphasizes Maggy's dark, mysterious, and lonely personality, then hooks the reader in when she introduces Cole, the interesting new guy in town. To Maggy, he's this incredible, new, and loving person, but to everyone else, including the reader, theres just something a little suspicous about him. One cliff hanger after another, Koja keeps you guessing and on your toes. Will Maggy stay with Cole? Or will she go back to school? You'll just have to find out in this incredibly well written and hard to put down novel

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  • Posted October 27, 2010

    The best book i have ever read! you should read it to.

    Dear reader, The book I finished is called The Blue Mirror. The book to me is very interesting because I can relate to the story. I thought at first the book was about a blue mirror but it didn't turn out the way I planned. It turned out even better then I expected. The main characters in this book are called Maggy, and Cole. They are two different people that seem to have a spark. But you have to read the book to find out how. Maggy is a lot like me because she likes to draw and so do I. Cole on the other hand is like me because he is thoughtful and does a lot for some people. I sometimes do that also. This book is for people that love mysteries and love at first sight. But wait there is a twist that got me and will certainly get you also. So if your one of those people then this book is for you.

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  • Posted April 7, 2009

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    An awesome read

    Maggie flees to The Blue Mirror, a café that serves as her sacred space, nightly to escape her drunk, depressed mother. There she nurses a drink and spends most of her time drawing the things and people around her, translating them into her own world, which shares a name with her café hide out.

    It's there that she meets Cole, a dreamy stranger who makes something inside her sing. Leader of a small band of street kids he's exciting, dangerous and manipulative. And he swears he loves her.

    After the questionable, uncomfortable love story of the Twilight books it's refreshing to have a fictional voyage into twisted love, framed by adult issues that teens are being forced to face more and more, and dreamy, hyper-flowing prose. This is one powerful book, despite it's short length and should be a must read in the modern overload of relationship dramas in young adult fiction.

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  • Posted January 8, 2009

    Finding The Mystery

    The Blue Mirror
    By: Kathe Koja
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    I liked my book because it had looked scary that¿s why I picked this book. This book was good to me because I like to read scary stories all the time. There was interesting things to read about the book and also mystery. The book is about a sixteen year old girl her name is Maggy. It was a good book because when I started reading it i noticed that it was a good book to me because in this book her problems started when she met a guy who¿s name was cole. Her life becomes invisible at the blue mirror. I would describe the author of my book I read a good author because she can write good stories that gets people to read her stories. I think any type of people would like to read this good book because it gets your attention and the mystery also keeps making you read more and more. The rating I would give my book is about four out of five because it was so good. My book had 108 pgs its not that long and it¿s a good book any kind of people would like to read it i hope this book interest you because I liked this book a lot.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 28, 2007

    i dont know what to say

    This book swears way to much and the way the author wrote it is all wrong

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 28, 2007

    HORRIBLE

    this book was definitely poorly written. the author begins quotes by saying 'but' or 'so' ALL THE TIME. for example (so you guys won't think I'm lying) on page 23 of the hardcover version, it says '...I orbit but never touch so 'I'm going inside' I say... and I don't want to draw in front of her anyway but 'You're an artist,' she says... I dont know why I even said it but 'No,' immediately angry...' see?! come on, talk about poor grammar... the only reason I am giving this book a 2 is because the STORY was actually pretty good, if it would have been re-written. the fact that the boy Cole just suddenly appears in her life and takes control of her was ridiculous. The book just went too fast, as if no one ever TALKS to a person first, before following them around..

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 16, 2006

    Amazing and compelling story

    This book is an amazing story about this girl who falls for a boy who seems to be perfect, but that is nothing but a mask. He is this black whole of nothingness. A compelling story that captures the essence of falling in love, deception, hurting and broken heart. It's a story that demonstrate the true ways of love. Amazing.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 9, 2005

    I'm in LOVE with this book

    When I first heard of this book I thought it was going to be lame. Then I read it, the story line and plot sucked me in. I immediatly related and could place myself in this story. Its one of those stories you can read over and over and still find it interesting.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 16, 2005

    it was okay

    it was a pretty good book. the story line was smooshed together but still interesting. the ending was good but left me confused about why cole was the way he was(like the other reviewer)i also had to go back and reread some parts...but i did enjoy it :)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 29, 2005

    i liked it.. a little

    this book was ok... it completely captured me and drew me in... but then it didnt really leave a trace when it was over... sometimes i felt lost because of the flow of the events... they were like blended in... but at the same time i loved this technique... i havent read any other books by kathe koja but not sure i am looking forward to them...

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 29, 2004

    Not as good as it seems

    I was very disspointed with this book. The writing style is hard to follow. I often had to go back and re-read parts to understand how the conversations went. The whole story of the book is good but not conveyed very well. It left me confused of why Cole is how he is. The author doesn't explain things very well, or give good background discriptions to the characters appearances or surroundings. Wasn't really worth my money.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 28, 2004

    'The Blue Mirror'-Kathe Koja

    The Blue Mirror is about a seventeen-year-old adolescent artist, Maggy Klass, who gets lost in her own world, the one she creates through her drawings, the Blue Mirror. The Blue mirror is also the name of the café where Maggie frequently seeks refuge from her life at home with her alcoholic mother. Here she sits, observes and draws the people passing by and the rest of the world outside. While drawing one evening in the café she notices a beautiful, charismatic young man Cole. A friend of hers at the cafe warns her about this man, but she pays no attention to the warning. Falling in love with Cole, she overlooks his weaknesses and his power over the young girls on the streets and his true nature. Maggie begins to realize that she doesn¿t belong to Cole when he invades her home, which she shares with her mother. At this point she is able to recognize Cole for who he really is, she is able to capture his face, his true self into her world, the Blue Mirror. I recommend this book because it can relate to so many teens in present day, dysfunctional families, falling in love, struggling with the truth and discovering yourself.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 13, 2004

    Highly recommended

    This book fallows the story of 17 yr old maggy, an artist who goes to a cafe ( the blue mirror) and sketches in her sketch book (also called the blue mirror) almost every day to escape her alcoholic mother. She meets dark, edgy Cole and the two girls who always fallow him Jouly and Marianne. Cole and Maggy instantly start an intense relationship. This book took me about an hour to read and i love kojas writing style.

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