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AGNES PARkER…
HAPPY CAMPER?
“When best friends Agnes and Prejean
find themselves in different bunks at
science camp, it seems like the end of
fun. Worse yet, Agnes is partnered with
bad-tempered, bluntly honest Nyssa…
Readers will find this both an introspective
look at character traits and a fun
romp in nature.” —School Library Journal
Rec: BL, C, K, PWH, SLJ
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 160 pp. 2006
978-0-14-240618-2 $5.99
OPHIE OUT OF OZ
“Fourth-grader Ophie Peelers life has
changed since her family moved from
California to Oregon. She must adjust to
a new home, a new school, new friends, a
new baby sister, and her salesman father’s
long absence from home….Girls trying
to find their own places in the world will
enjoy this journey of self discovery.”
—School Library Journal
Rec: H, SLJ
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 192 pp. 2005
978-0-14-240394-5 $5.99
OLSON, ARIELLE NORTH
AND HOWARD SCHWARTZ
ASk THE BONES
Scary Stories from Around the World
Illustrated by David Oliver
“This varied collection of scary tales includes
22 stories from around the world,
ranging from ghost stories to tales about
witches and voodoo spells. In most of
the selections good triumphs over evil…
Excellent for reading aloud, this collection
will satisfy even jaded genre fans.”
—Booklist
Rec: BL, PW, SLJ
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 160 pp. 2002
978-0-14-230140-1 $5.99
PARTRIDGE, ELIZABETH
RESTLESS SPIRIT
The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
“Lange’s stirring black-and-white
photographs, more than 60 of them, exquisitely
reproduced, provide the drama
in this biography of the famous camera
artist… Partridge draws on letters,
journals, and oral history to give a strong
sense of Lange’s personal struggles as a
child, a wife, and a mother; her lasting
pain at her father’s desertion; her shame
over the disability caused by a childhood
bout with polio; and her awareness as an
adult that that vulnerability helped her in
her work.” —Booklist
Rec: BL, SLJ
8 1/4 x 10 1/4 128 pp. 2001
978-0-14-230024-4 $11.99
See index for more titles by Elizabeth Partridge.
Katherine
Paterson
COME SING, JIMMY JO
“This is a story of country music, of
family bonding and friction, and above
all of the realignment of perspectives for
11-year-old Jimmy Jo. He joins the family
singing group and his sweet singing
brings them more fame than they’ve ever
had. It also brings publicity, and with his
new prominence James is a target for fans,
and for a man who insists he’s James’
real father....A tender touching story of
familial love.” —Bulletin of the
Center for Children’s Books
Rec: AN, B, BL, C, CE, CR, CSM, H, K, LC, NYC, NYT, PW, R, SLJ,
TE, W, WP
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 208 pp. 1995
978-0-14-037397-4 $5.99
FLIP-FLOP GIRL
“Torn apart by the recent death of her
father, a 10-year-old Vinnie does not
look forward to moving from D.C. to
Virginia....A master of rendering the
intensity of childhood emotions, Paterson
explores the impact of grief and the slow
process of healing.” —Publishers WeeklyH
Rec: AN, HH KH, PWH, R, SLJH, W
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 128 pp. 1996
978-0-14-037679-1 $5.99
JIP: HIS STORY
After tumbling off the back of a wagon,
Jip was brought to live at the town poor
farm. He has been content to do chores
and tend animals—until one day the
lunatic arrives. Put seems terrifying and
less than human, but as the weeks pass,
Jip sees the man he truly is. So, when a
menacing stranger comes to town, claiming
to have been sent by Jip’s grieving
father, Jip turns to his new friend to make
sense of his past. “Readers will be talking
and thinking about this book.”
—School Library JournalH
Rec: AN, BKL, BLH, HH KH, NYTA, PWH, SLJH, TE, W
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 208 pp. 1998
978-0-14-038674-5 $6.99
Puffin Modern Classic
5 x 7 192 pp. 2005
978-0-14-240411-9 $5.99
LYDDIE
“Rich in historical detail, with characters
who emerge to become real people, this
story encompasses three years in the life
of Lyddie Worthen...[who is] forced to
leave her beloved home when her mother
hires her out to pay her absent father’s
debts...a superb story of grit, determination,
and personal growth.”
—The Horn BookH
Rec: AN, AY, BL, CE, CR, CS, E, HH HG, KH, NC, NYC, NYTA, PC,
PW, R, SLJ, TE, V, W
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 192 pp. 1995
978-0-14-037389-9 $6.99
4 3/8 x 7 1/8 240 pp. 1992
978-0-14-034981-8
Puffin Modern Classic
$6.99
5 x 7 192 pp. 2004
978-0-14-240254-2
PARk’S QUEST
$6.99
Park wants to learn more about his
father, a deceased Vietnam War veteran.
“Paterson offers her young readers a
glimpse of the Vietnam War from what
might be considered the next generation,
the children of veterans, those for whom
Vietnam is a vague historical event that
has nevertheless somehow changed their
lives.” —The New York Times
Rec: BL, C, CR, HH KH, NC, NYT, PW, R, SLJ, TE, W, WP
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 160 pp. 1989
978-0-14-034262-8 $5.99
PARZIVAL
The Quest of the Grail Knight
“Paterson brings her considerable talent
to this retelling of the story of Parzival,
the Grail Knight....Nearly 800 years old,
the story has freshness, humor, grace, and
depth.” —School Library JournalH
Rec: BL, C, HG, K, K, PWH, SLJH, V
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 144 pp. 2000
978-0-14-130573-8 $4.99
See index for more titles by Katherine Paterson.
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