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MORPURGO, MICHAEL
WAITING FOR ANYA
Jo has stumbled onto a dangerous secret.
A reclusive widow’s farm has become
a haven for a growing band of Jewish
children hiding from the Nazis. Jo knows
he must keep the secret. But when German
soldiers move into town, the danger
suddenly becomes much more real. For
as Jo knows all too well, the penalty for
helping Jews escape is death. “Actionpacked...gripping...Morpurgo’scharacters
rise above the two-dimensional,
giving young people much to ponder in
the areas of good versus evil and hero
versus villian.” —The Horn Book
Rec: AY, BL, C, CE, CS, E, H, HG, K, NC, PW, R, SLJ, V, W
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 176 pp. 1997
978-0-14-038431-4 $6.99
MORRISON, TONI
THE BLUEST EYE
Morrison’s first novel, this rich story of
an eleven-year-old black girl who yearns
for her eyes to turn blue is “so charged
with pain and wonder that it becomes
poetry.”
PLUME
—The New York Times
5 5/16 x 8 224 pp. 1994
978-0-452-27305-4 $14.00
MURPHY, PAT
THE CITY, NOT LONG AFTER
“After a deadly plague sweeps the world,
toppling governments in its wake, a
few surviving artists who have claimed
San Francisco as their home wage an
unorthodox war against an invading
army intent on bringing the blessings of
law and order to a community that has
discovered a better way of life.”
—Library Journal
Rec: LJ, WP
4 1/4 x 7 244 pp. 2006
978-0-14-240405-8 $7.99
MURRAY, JAYE
BOTTLED UP
Principal Giraldi has given Pip an ultimatum:
Either he stops skipping classes and
begins seeing a counselor after school, or
he’s expelled. But what really scares Pip
is the thought that Giraldi might call his
father. His father is what really scares Pip.
“Alternately cocky, funny and maudlin,
[this novel] gets its appeal from Pip’s unnervingly
convincing teenage voice.”
—Washington Post
Rec: C, K, PW, SLJ, V, WP
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 224 pp. 2004
978-0-14-240240-5 $5.99
MYRACLE, LAUREN
kISSING kATE
Kate was Lissa’s best friend. They’ve
shared everything for four years. Then
one night at a drunken party, Kate leaned
in to kiss Lissa, and Lissa kissed her
back. And now Kate is pretending Lissa
doesn’t exist. Confused and alone, Lissa’s
left questioning everything she thought
she knew about herself, and about life.
“Myracle’s enchanting first novel will
reach teens who are wrestling with
identity…[A] gem.” —VOYA
Rec: BL, C, PW, SLJ, V
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 208 pp. 2004/2007
978-0-14-240869-8 $6.99
See index for more titles by Lauren Myracle.
NA, AN
A STEP FROM HEAVEN
“Young Ju’s parents don’t want her to
become too American, and Young Ju
is ashamed of them. It’s the classic immigrant
child conflict, told here in the
present tense with the immediacy of the
girl’s voice, from the time she’s a toddler
in a small Korean village wondering why
the adults talk about America as ‘heaven.’
….The tales blend together into a beautiful
first novel that takes Ju through her
teenage years until she’s an A-student
ready to leave for college…As in the best
writing, the particulars make the story
universal.” —BooklistH
Rec: BLH, PW, SLJ
National Book Award Finalist
Printz Award
5 1/2 x 8 3/8 160 pp. 2003
978-0-14-250027-9 $7.99
WAIT FOR ME ❖
“The author of the Printz Award Book A
Step from Heaven tells another contemporary
Korean American story of leaving
home. This time, though, love is as
powerful as the intense family drama.”
—BooklistH
Rec: AY, BLH, CH, H, KH, PW, SLJ, V
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 192 pp. 2007
978-0-14-240918-3 $7.99
Walter Dean
Myers
FAST SAM, COOL CLYDE,
AND STUFF
“Myers explores the value and meaning
of true friendship....The tone is alternately
funny, sad, and sentimental, but it
is always natural and appealing.”
—School Library Journal
Rec: AN, BL, C, CE, H, HG, LC, NYTA, R, SLJ, TE, W
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 192 pp. 1988/2007
978-0-14-032613-0 $6.99 ❖
WON’T kNOW TILL I GET THERE
“A black teenager learns something
about himself through interaction with
a group of senior citizens and a thirteenyear-old
delinquent whom his parents
have taken into their home....The story’s
spark comes from Myers’ special knack
at making his kids seem like real fleshand-blood
figures.” —BooklistH
Rec: BLH, C, CE, H, HG, LC, NC, R, SLJ, V, W
4 3/8 x 7 1/8 192 pp. 1988
978-0-14-032612-3 $5.99
THE YOUNG LANDLORDS
Paul Williams and his friends in the
Action Group want the derelict Stratford
Arms cleaned up now. But once the
building is turned over to the Group,
they see what kind of mess they are really
in. “The entrepreneurs are a likable
bunch whose trial by fire offers food for
thought between chuckles.” —Booklist
Rec: AN, AY, BL, C, CS, E, H, LC, NYTA, R, TE, W
Coretta Scott King Award
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 208 pp. 1988/2007
978-0-14-034244-4 $6.99 ❖
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