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Anderson, Margaret Jean Light in the Mountain
Knopf Publishing Group 1982 0394847911 / 9780394847917 Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Very-nice, clean copy. Dustcover has been price-clipped (inside-front-flap) NO remainder marks. Tight spine - Bright pages. 181 pages. - Saved from being sacrificed alive to the angry volcano, eight-year-old Rana transcends the evil schemes of the tribesman who "saves" her and leads her people to a new life in the distant Land of the Long White Cloud.
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Ashby, John Sea Gift
Clarion Books 2003 0395776031 / 9780395776032 Hard Cover As New As New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
As-new copy - Price inside dustcover: $15.00 - One day while out in the lobster boat he is working on for the summer, Lauchie pulls up an old trap that holds something unexpected -- a strange, carefully sealed container. Its contents are mysterious and intriguing ... and they lead Lauchie and his best friend, Angus, on a dangerous quest. It involves, among other things, the history of the land they have grown up exploring, the local Mi'kmaq people, and the possibility of lost treasure. Suspenseful and riveting, their adventure becomes a journey of self-discovery during which Lauchie learns some truths not only about himself but also about his Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, community.
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Avi The Man Who Was Poe
New York, New York, U.S.A. Avon 1991 0380711923 / 9780380711925 Mass Market Paperback Very Good + 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Very-good+, clean condition. Covers are bright andclean, show light wear. 214 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, clean pages. Pages show tanning.
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Baxter, Stephen Longtusk
EOS / Harper Collins 2002 0061051357 / 9780061051357 Mass Market Paperback Fine 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. 304 pages. Even as a young calf, Longtusk understood the hardships the few remaining of hisancient kind had encountered when the glaciers retreated and grassy forests stoleover the vast tundra the herds called home. Worst of all was when the Fireheads came — cruel, two-legged beasts who kill for pleasure. At a tender age, Longtuskbecame their prisoner, hobbled, abused, and stripped of his freedom. Butthrough toil and terror, Longtusk never forgot his Clan — and he ]carried crucial,intimate knowledge of the Fircheads' ways, though at a terrible price. Now thetime is rapidly approaching when lie will have to clash with those who seek todestroy every living trace of his proud breed. The dark land before him will bemined with fierce obstacles and awesome challenges. And though it may requirethe ultimate sacrifice and a grim confrontation with the Lost, the most fearedenemy of his gargantuan race Longtusk must not shun the twisted path infront of him...or what lie is destined to become: the greatest hero of them all.
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Bennett, James W. The Squared Circle
Scholastic 1995 0590486713 / 9780590486712 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author
Like-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Stated First Printing. SIGNED / AUTOGRAPHED by author: "For Carol - all best wishes - James W. Bennett." NO other writing or marks. NO tears. Tight spine, bright pages. 248 pages. Basketball, to Sonny Youngblood, is like breathing. In fact, Sonny is just the player SIU needed for an NCAA Championship bid. And he's met a lot of people along the way. Only now, it's all blurring together. Disturbing, long-repressed moments of Sonny's life are jolting into his memory. He wonders: Who is Sonny Youngblood, anyway? Just a basketball player, nothing more? When he meets a woman from his past, he thinks he's found a way to escape the questions and memories that are tearing him apart ? only to reclaim the person he once was, he'll have to destroy the player that he is. Annotation Sonny, a university freshman and star basketball player, finds that the pressures of college life, NCAA competition, and an unsettling relationship with his feminist cousin bring up painful memories that he must face before he can decide what is important in his life.
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Brashares, Ann The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
New York, New York, U.S.A. Delacorte Pr 2004 0385730586 / 9780385730587 Trade Paperback Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Reader's Circle Edition. Near-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Synopsis Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn’t look all that great; they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Lena decides they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them. Nobody knows why, but the pants fit everyone perfectly. . . Take the New York Times bestselling book and pair it with a perfect cast, a screenplay from one of Hollywood’s most respected writers, and gorgeous locales like Vancouver, Baja, and Santorini, and you have The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, the teen girl movie of summer 2005 from Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures! Ken Kwapis directs a dream cast: Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls) as Lena, 2004 Emmy nominee Amber Tamblyn (Joan of Arcadia) as Tibby, America Ferrara (Real Women Have Curves) as Carmen, and newcomer Blake Lively as Bridget. Screenplay by Delia Ephron the screenwriter behind You’ve Got Mail and associate producer of Sleepless in Seattle. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants received enormous recognition including starred reviews, was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, is a Book Sense Book of the Year, a Publishers Weekly Flying Start, and won the hearts of teen girls across the country and continues to be a New York Times Bestseller.
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Cabot, Meg All-American Girl
HarperCollins 2002 0060294698 / 9780060294694 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. 247 pages. NO writing, marks or tears. - Publishers Weekly In another teen-pleasing novel from the author of the Princess Diaries books, a feisty 15-year-old self-described "urban rebel" finds that her life suddenly changes when she foils an attempt to assassinate the president. "A convincing and diverting tale," PW said in a starred review. Ages 12-up. (Aug.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Biography Keeping up with Meg Cabot is tricky: Under four pen names, the Princess Diaries author turns out light entertaining novels for teens and adults at a furious pace. Which is good news for her fans, who snap them up as fast as she can write them
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Cormier, Robert 8 Plus 1: Stories
Pantheon Books 1980 0394845951 / 9780394845951 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Dustcover shows slight wear - Book is in Fine Condition - 172 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside - Tight spine - Bright pages. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Robert Cormier (pronounced kor-MEER) lived all his life in Leominster, Massachusetts, a small town in the north-central part of the state, where he grew up as part of a close, warm community of French Canadian immigrants. His wife, Connie, also from Leominster, still lives in the house where they raised their three daughters and one son–all adults now. They never saw a reason to leave. “There are lots of untold stories right here on Main Street,” Cormier once said. A newspaper reporter and columnist for 30 years (working for the Worcester Telegram and Gazette and the Fitchburg Sentinel), Cormier was often inspired by news stories. What makes his works unique is his ability to make evil behavior understandable, though, of course, still evil. “I’m very much interested in intimidation,” he told an interviewer from School Library Journal. “And the way people manipulate other people. And the obvious abuse of authority.” All of these themes are evident in his young adult classic and best-known book, The Chocolate War. A 15-year-old fan of his said, “You always write from inside the person.” Cormier traveled the world, from Australia (where he felt particularly thrilled by putting his hand in the Indian Ocean) and New Zealand to most of the countries in Europe, speaking at schools, colleges, and universities and to teacher and librarian associations. He visited nearly every state in the nation. While Cormier loved to travel, he said many times that he also loved returning to his home in Leominster. Cormier was a practicing Catholic and attended parochial school, where inseventh grade, one of his teachers discovered his ability to write. But he said he had always wanted to be a writer: “I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t trying to get something down on paper.” His first poems were published in the Leominster Daily Enterprise, and his first professional publication occurred while he was a freshman at Fitchburg State College. His professor, Florence Conlon, sent his short story, without his knowledge, to The Sign, a national Catholic magazine. The story, titled “The Little Things That Count,” sold for $75. Cormier’s first work as a writer was at radio station WTAG in Worcester, MA, where he wrote scripts and commercials from 1946 to 1948. In 1948, he began his award-winning career as a newspaperman with the Worcester Telegram, first in its Leominster office and later in its Fitchburg office. He wrote a weekly human-interest column, “A Story from the Country,” for that newspaper. In 1955, Cormier joined the staff of the Fitchburg Sentinel, which later became the Fitchburg-Leominster Sentinel and Enterprise, as the city hall and political reporter. He later served as wire and associate editor and wrote a popular twice-weekly column under the pseudonym John Fitch IV. The column received the national K.R. Thomason Award in 1974 as the best human-interest column written that year. That same year, he was honored by the New England Associated Press Association for having written the best news story under pressure of deadline. He left newspaper work in 1978 to devote all his time to writing. Robert Cormier’s first novel, Now and at the Hour, was published in 1960. Inspired by his father’s death, the novel drew critical acclaim and was featured by Time magazine for five weeks on its “Recommended Reading” list. It was followed in 1963 by A Little Raw on Monday Mornings and in 1965 by Take Me Where the Good Times Are, also critically acclaimed. The author was hailed by the Newark Advocate as being “in the first rank of American Catholic novelists.” In 1974, Cormier published The Chocolate War, the novel that is still a bestseller a quarter century after its publication. Instantly acclaimed, it was also the object of censorship attempts because of its uncompromising realism. In a front-page review in a special children’s issue of The New York Times Book Review, it was described as “masterfully structured and rich in theme,” and it went on to win countless awards and honors, was taught in schools and colleges throughout the world, and was translated into more than a dozen languages. I Am the Cheese followed in 1977 and After the First Death in 1979. These three books established Cormier as a master of the young adult novel. In 1991, the Young Adult Services Division of the American Library Association presented him with the Margaret A. Edwards Award, citing the trio of books as “brilliantly crafted and troubling novels that have achieved the status of classics in young adult literature.” In 1982, Cormier was honored by the National Council of Teachers of English and its Adolescent Literature Assembly (ALAN) for his “significant contribution to the field of adolescent literature” and for his “innovative creativity.” 8 Plus 1, an anthology of short stories that have appeared in such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, The Sign, and Redbook, was published in 1980. In later years, many of the stories in the collection, notably “The Moustache,” “President Cleveland, Where Are You?” and “Mine on Thursdays,” appeared in anthologies and school textbooks. The collection also received the World of Reading Readers’ Choice Award, sponsored by Silver Burdett & Ginn, especially notable because young readers voted for Cormier to receive the prize. I Have Words to Spend, a collection of his newspaper and magazine columns, was published in 1991, assembled and edited by his wife, Connie. Robert Cormier’s other novels include The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, 1983; Beyond the Chocolate War, 1985; Fade, 1988; Other Bells for Us to Ring, 1990; We All Fall Down, 1991; Tunes for Bears to Dance To, 1992; In the Middle of the Night, 1995; Tenderness, 1997; Heroes, 1998; and Frenchtown Summer, 1999. This novel won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction in April 2000. All his novels have won critical praise and honors. In the Middle of the Night and Tenderness were short-listed for the Carnegie Medal in England, and Heroes received a “Highly Commended” citation for that same award, unique honors because the Carnegie is traditionally awarded to a British book. Cormier's novels have frequently come under attack by censorship groups because they are uncompromising in their depictions of the problems young people face each day in a turbulent world. Teachers and librarians have been quick to point out that his novels are eminently teachable, valuable, and moral. His novels are taught in hundreds of schools and in adolescent literature courses in colleges and universities. Though many of his books are described as written for young adults, in fact people of all ages read and enjoy Cormier’s work. His themes of the ordinariness of evil and what happens when good people stand by and do nothing are treated seriously, and he never provides the easy comfort of a happy ending. Cormier’s gripping stories explore some of the darker corners of the human psyche, but always with a moral focus and a probing intelligence that compel readers to examine their own feelings and ethical beliefs. In an interview last year, Cormier was asked if he had accomplished what he set out to do at the beginning of his writing career. He answered with characteristic humility: “Oh, yes. My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel and all the rest has been a sweet bonus. All I’ve ever wanted to do, really, was to write. That writing has left the world a legacy of wonderful books, a body of work that will endure.
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Danziger, Paula; Martin, Ann M. Snail Mail No More
Scholastic 2000 0439063353 / 9780439063357 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. Appears unread. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. 307 pages. - Best friends Elizabeth and Tara*Starr are still totally different. Tara*Starr accessorizes with glitter and sequins, and loves the spotlight. Elizabeth loves reading and writing poetry, and hates to be the center of attention. Though the two live far from each other, they continue to correspond regularly now, via E-mail. But distance and life events out of their control put the girls' friendship to the test. An unforgettable testament to the power of friendship.
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Dickinson, Peter The Ropemaker
New York, New York, U.S.A. Delacorte Press 2001 0385729219 / 9780385729215 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. Price inside dustcover: $15.95. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - November 2001 printing. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. Dustcover has 1 small, closed tear (top of spine) - Book is in Fine Condition. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - When the magic that protects their Valley starts to fail, Tilja and her companions journey into the evil Empire to find the ancient magician Faheel, who originally cast those spells.
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Franklin, Kristine L.; Frankline, Kristin Dove Song
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. Candlewick Pr 1999 0763604097 / 9780763604097 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $16.99. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - When eleven-year-old Bobbie Lynn's father is reported missing in action in Vietnam, she and her thirteen-year-old brother must learn to cope with their own despair, as well as their mother's breakdown.
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Greene, Bette Morning Is a Long Time Coming
New York, New York, U.S.A. The Dial Press 1978 0803754965 / 9780803754966 Hard Cover Near-Fine Very Good + 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Lilly, Charles (cover art) Signed by Author
SIGNED / AUTOGRAPHED by author book front, on blank page. Very-interesting dedication by the author: " Oct. 1978 - For Frances, who is supporting an artist that needs supporting. Warmest wishes, Bette Greene" - Very-nice, clean copy of this 1978 hardback. Apparent First Edition. Price inside dustcover: $7.95. Red endpapers. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Dustcover shows slight wear and 3 small, closed tears. Blue boards with copper lettering (clean and bright - bottom corners show slight bumping. NO tears inside book. Other that autographed inscription, NO other writing or marks inside book. 263 pages. Tight spine, Bright pages. NO tears inside book.
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Griffin, Adele Overnight
Putnam Pub Group 2003 0399237828 / 9780399237829 First Edition Hard Cover As New As New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
As-new copy - Price inside dustcover: $15.99 - 151 pages - Gray is one of the Lucky Seven, the group every girl at FieldingAcademy wants to belong to. But those inside this enchanted circle know it's less about feeling accepted in the group and more about making sure the other girls don't turn on you. Of the Seven, Gray is the quietest, the most vulnerable, the easiest target for the others. And tonight she disappears. As the girls search for Gray, some of them worry. Others have secrets they're not telling, even to the police. And as the truth gets harder to hide, the Lucky Seven is in danger of falling apart. As for Gray, she's going to need all of her courage just to survive the night.
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Hedgepeth, William The Hog Book
New York, New York, U.S.A. Doubleday 1978 0385116667 / 9780385116664 Trade Paperback Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Findley, John (drawings); Clayton, al (photographs)
Over-sized book. Illustrated throughout with photos and drawings - NO writing or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages. 273 pages. NO remainder marks or price clippings.
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Heneghan, James Torn Away: A Novel
New York, New York, U.S.A. Viking Pr 1994 0670851809 / 9780670851805 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $14.99. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 185 pages. Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Declan lives only for revenge. His mother, father, and sister were all killed by the British on the streets of Belfast, and Declan will stop at nothing to settle the score. When he is torn away from his native soil and sent to live with sympathetic relatives in Canada, he is disgusted by their efforts to welcome him into their lives, and determined to make them regret their hospitality. Can he devise a plan to return to Ireland and rejoin his cause? Or will the strange beauty of his new life and surroundings weaken his resolve?
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Henkes, Kevin Protecting Marie
New York, NY, U.S.A. Greenwillow Books 1995 0688139582 / 9780688139582 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Relates twelve-year-old Fanny's love-hate relationship with her father, a temperamental artist, who has given Fanny a new dog.
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Hoeye, Michael Time Stops for No Mouse: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure
Putnam Pub Group 2002 0399238786 / 9780399238789 Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 250 pages. Synopsis Hermux Tantamoq is an average mouse who works in his watch shop by day and spends his evenings at home with Terfle, his pet ladybug. But all that changes when Linka Perflinger, daredevil aviatrix, steps into his shop, drops off her watch for repair, and walks out with Hermux's heart. When a shady-looking rat tries to claim Linka's watch, Hermux knows that something must be terribly wrong, and embarks on a dramatic quest to find her . . . Annotation When Linka Perflinger, a jaunty mouse, brings a watch into Hermux Tantamoq's shop to be repaired and then disappears, Hermux is caught up in a dangerous search for eternal youth as he tries to find out what happened to Linka.
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