In with the Out Crowd
Norma Howe. Avon Books, $2.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-70472-9
Saying no to her boyfriend's demands puts Robin squarely on the outs with her old crowd. Ages 12-up. (January)
Details
Reviewed on: 01/01/1988
Genre: Children's
- Amazon
- Apple Books
- Barnes & Noble
- Bookshop
- Share
- Tweet
- Copy Link
More By and About this Authorchevron_right
- BLUE AVENGER CRACKS THE CODENorma HowePersuaded by his English teacher that the author of the plays attributed to Shakespeare is someone else, Blue quickly sets to work decoding Elizabethan anagrams and ciphers.
Continue reading » - Angel in Vegas: The Chronicles of Noah SarkNorma HoweHowe (the Blue Avenger trilogy) offers the odd pairing of Las Vegas kitsch and a purported angel in this stylized sideways tourist travelogue. Waking up in the bathroom of Angelo's Donut Continue reading »
- Adventures of Blue AvengerNorma HoweDavid Bruce Schumacher has been drawing comic books featuring a superhero for three years, but on his 16th birthday he decides that it's high time that someone actually do something about the world's Continue reading »
- Blue Avenger Cracks the CodeNorma HoweLess philosophical than The Adventures of Blue Avenger, this sequel is just as eccentric and intellectually engaging and very nearly as much fun. In her breezy, iconoclastic style, Howe begins with a Continue reading »
- In with the Out CrowdNorma HoweRobin Tweedy-Boyd, 16, is a member of the in-crowd until she chooses not to drink and not to sleep with BMOC Bill. Then they reject her and she's ""out.'' The kids she hasn't bothered with since Continue reading »
- Game of LifeNorma HoweAccording to PW , Howe ``vividly documents the 16-year-old heroine's experiences and encounters, as a flurry of names, dates and moments in time are intricately textured into a rich, realistic Continue reading »
- Blue Avenger and the Theory of EverythingNorma HoweThe eponymous hero (aka David Bruce Schumacher) endures an identity crisis while trying to save his beloved Omaha Nebraska Brown from eviction in this third book in the series begun with The Continue reading »
PW EDITORS’ PICKS FOR
THE BEST NEW BOOKS
PW EDITORS’ PICKS FOR THE BEST NEW BOOKS
Featured Children's Reviews
Rise
Freya Finch
A fledgling teen Valkyrie tries to avert Ragnarök in Finch’s spirited, Norse mythology–inspired debut. Most assume Bryn Martel, her older sisters Prima and Reagan, and their Continue reading »
Benji Zeb Is a Ravenous Werewolf
Deke Moulton
White-cued Benji Zeb—on the cusp of making his bar mitzvah—is struggling to keep many secrets as well as live up to the expectations of his kibbutz family. His first secret—he Continue reading »
Fowl Play
Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
Contemporary Charleston, S.C., provides the backdrop for this cunning mystery by Tubb (Luna Howls at the Moon), in which a grieving tween’s often laugh-aloud misadventures in Continue reading »
The Zebra’s Great Escape
Katherine Rundell
Writing in the tradition of rumbustious British children’s classics, Rundell (One Christmas Wish) introduces Mink, a headstrong city-dwelling child who “did not believe in Continue reading »
chevron_right
