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Richard Peck
AMANDA/MIRANDA
“Peck understood the lure of the Titanic
long before the current craze...Peck has
a sure winner here...a charming novel,
full of mistaken identity, class differences,
thwarted love, and sweet revenge.”
—Booklist
Rec: BL, H
4 3/8 x 7 1/8 176 pp. 2001
978-0-14-131217-0 $5.99
ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE ALONE?
“A well-told, non-sensationalized story
[which] makes a powerful statement
concerning the problems—physical,
emotional, and judicial—that face a rape
victim.” —Booklist
Rec: AY, BL, C, H, SLJ, W
4 3/8 x 7 1/8 160 pp. 2000
978-0-14-130693-3 $5.99
THE DREADFUL FUTURE
OF BLOSSOM CULP
It’s Halloween 1914, and teenage psychic
Blossom Culp sneaks into the house
where the rest of her class is having a
party—and that’s when everything goes
haywire.
Rec: PW
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 192 pp. 2001
978-0-14-131094-7 $5.99
DREAMLAND LAkE
Flip and Brian have been best friends
since grade school. But everything
changes in seventh grade when they
find a dead man lying in the leaves near
Dreamland Lake. What happens in the
summer the follows will change their
lives forever.
Rec: K, SLJ
4 3/8 x 7 1/8 160 pp. 2000
978-0-14-130812-8 $4.99
FATHER FIGURE
Seventeen-year-old Jim Atwater has
played father to his kid brother, Byron,
ever since their parents’ divorce eight
years ago. Since then they’ve lived with
their mother and grandmother—and
their father has been a stranger to them.
But Jim and Byron’s familiar world falls
apart when their mother dies and their
father shows up out of nowhere, wanting
to be part of his sons’ lives. Can Jim set
aside his anger and come to terms with
his father?
Rec: AN, AY, BL, C, H, SLJ, V
4 3/8 x 7 1/8 208 pp. 1996
978-0-14-037969-3 $5.99
THE GHOST BELONGED TO ME
When Alexander notices an eerie light
out in the barn, he thinks his friend
Blossom Culp is trying to spook him.
But one night Alexander comes face to
face with the ghost of a drowned girl,
who brings a cryptic warning. Is there
time for Alexander to act on her words?
“Peck’s blending of mystery and humor
makes an unusual and entertaining ghost
story.” —BooklistH
Rec: AN, BLH, C, CE, E, H, LC, SLJ, V, W
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 192 pp. 1997
978-0-14-038671-4 $5.99
GHOSTS I HAVE BEEN
“Blossom Culp, the dauntless, rather
scruffy heroine of The Ghost Belonged
to Me, is back in a kind of occult tall
tale....The effervescent comedy—both
high and low—is imbued with the free
spirit of exaggeration and written with an
unmistakable American accent.”
—The Horn Book
Rec: AY, BLH, CE, H, SLJ, TE, V, W
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 224 pp. 2001
978-0-14-131096-1 $6.99
THE RIVER BETWEEN US
During the early days of the Civil War,
the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious
young ladies who have fled New Orleans
to come north to Illinois. But who are
they? “Peck masterfully describes the
female Civil War experience, the subtle
and not-too-subtle ways the country was
changing, and the split in loyalty that
separated towns and even families.”
—School Library Journal
Rec: BLH, CH, HH KH, PWH, SLJ, V, WP
5 1/2 x 8 1/2 176 pp. 2005
978-0-14-240310-5 $6.99
STRAYS LIkE US
“In this tender novel, [Peck] paints
a richly detailed portrait of Molly, a
drug-addict’s daughter sent at the age
of 12 to live with a great-aunt she has
never met....This sensitive heroine is
one readers will want to take under their
wing—and will bid her a fond farewell at
the story’s gratifying conclusion.”
—Publishers WeeklyH
Rec: BLH, C, F, H, K, PWH, V
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 160 pp. 2000
978-0-14-130619-3 $5.99
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Ages 12 & up • Young Adult Reads