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PAPADEMETRIOU, LISA AND
CHRIS TEBBETTS
M OR F?
“Marcus and Frannie are “brain twins,”
best friends each looking for romance.
Frannie thinks she has found just the
person in Jeff, but she’s much too shy
and insecure to send him an e-mail.
Marcus, on the other hand, has no problem
finding the right words to keep Jeff
interested, which he discovers when he
impersonates Frannie. This is a creative,
funny romance, written with style and
sophistication. …It’s a classic tale of
mistaken identity and inaccurate assumptions,
filled with twists of plot that will
tantalize and please teen readers…sets a
high bar for future teen novels featuring
gay characters.” —Publishers Weekly
Rec: BL, C, K, SLJ, V
5 x 7 320 pp. 2006
978-1-59514-091-3 $6.99
PARKER, DANIEL AND
LEE MILLER
WATCHINGALICE
High-school senior Tom Sinclair’s journal
chronicles events leading up to the
disappearance of Alice, the only person
he has confided in after moving from
Vermont to Manhattan in an attempt to
run away from his past.
#1 BREAk THE SURFACE
Rec: SLJ, V
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 208 pp. 2004
978-1-59514-001-2 $7.99
#2 WALk ON WATER
Rec: V
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 208 pp. 2004
978-1-59514-002-9 $7.99
#3 SEEk THE PROPHET
Rec: V
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 208 pp. 2004
978-1-59514-003-6 $7.99
#4 FIND THE MIRACLE
Rec: V
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 176 pp. 2005
978-1-59514-004-3 $7.99
PARKS, ROSA
ROSA PARkS
My Story
Written with Jim Haskins
“On December 1, 1955, [Rosa Parks]
refused to surrender her seat to a white
person on a Montgomery, Ala. city bus.
What this book provides is a framework
that will enable its audience to put this
historic moment into a broader context,
and to appreciate the monumental effect
of one woman on an entire nation...all
will be deeply impressed by her boundless
energy and courage.”
—Publishers Weekly
Rec: BG, BL, C, CR, H, K, NYT, PC, PWH, SLJ, TE, V, W
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 208 pp. 1999
978-0-14-130120-4 $6.99
PAULSEN, GARY
THE FOXMAN
No one knows the Foxman is even
there until Carl and his cousin stumble
upon his shack deep in the woods. He
doesn’t say his name or show his face—it
is hidden behind a mask. Carl is happy
to leave the next day, having seen the
Foxman’s hideously mutilated face. But
his cousin will come back to learn some
of the Foxman’s sure instinct for the wild
and why he has decided to hide away
from mankind.
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 128 pp. 1990
978-0-14-034311-3 $5.99
POPCORN DAYS AND
BUTTERMILk NIGHTS
Although Carley would rather be anywhere
but here, a poverty-stricken Minnesota
farm town, he realizes that staying
with his uncle’s family is better than
reform school—where he was heading.
“Paulsen has written a beautiful vignette
of farm life in the 1940’s.”
—The Book Report
Rec: BL, CS, SLJ, V
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 112 pp. 1989
978-0-14-034204-8 $4.99
TILTAWHIRL JOHN
His uncle wanted him to stay home and
work the farm, but the boy knew there
was a world out there he had to see. Yet
being a runaway meant he was outside
the law—fair game for anyone to use.
That’s how he got caught on the farm
gang, caught and almost killed. It was
Tiltawhirl John who saved him, taught
him how to be a carnie, to run the
traveling show scams, and to keep a step
ahead of the suckers.
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 128 pp. 1990
978-0-14-034312-0 $5.99
PAUSEWANG, GUDRUN
THE FINAL JOURNEY
It is wartime. Eleven-year-old Alice is on
a train with no seats, no lights, no sanitary
facilities. Her parents and her grandmother
are missing, and Alice doesn’t
know where she is going. Maybe she will
get to play outside again, maybe she will
see her parents. But as the train rolls on,
Alice begins to realize that just when you
think things can’t possibly get any worse,
they do. “No reader will be immune to
the plight of these people, powerless in
the face of overwhelming evil.”
—Kirkus
Rec: BL, C, K, W
4 3/8 x 7 1/8 160 pp. 1998
978-0-14-130104-4 $6.99