Berlie Doherty, Author . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-001341-7
In this fast-paced novel, Doherty (Daughter of the Sea) unravels the story of 14-year-old narrator Holly, who feels like an outsider living with her "beautiful" mother and stepfather and their three children. When a man begins following...
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Berlie Doherty, Author Orchard Books (NY) $16.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-531-05461-1
Winner of England's Carnegie Medal, this complex and often unwieldy novel explores the consequences of a teenager's pregnancy-and the resultant tensions with her boyfriend. Brilliant, ambitious and university bound, Helen first attempts to induce a...
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Berlie Doherty, Author Harper Teen $5.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-688-12764-0
The Carnegie Medal-winning novel offers an affecting look at a teenager's pregnancy--and the resultant tensions with her boyfriend and family. Ages 13-up. (May)
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Berlie Doherty, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-037936-5
""With its sootily authentic atmosphere and its earnest reformist message,"" said PW in a starred review, this tale of a homeless boy in Victorian England ""calls to mind the ambience of Charles Dickens's novels."" Ages 10-14. (June)
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Berlie Doherty, Author Orchard Books (NY) $17.95 (154p) ISBN 978-0-531-06864-9
Homelessness is the central topic of this grim and gripping novel set in Victorian England. Doherty (Dear Nobody) builds her plot around the few facts known about Jim Jarvis, the London urchin who is said to have inspired Thomas Barnardo to...
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Berlie Doherty, Author Orchard Books (NY) $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-09512-6
An adopted boy searches for his birth mother in this sensitive British novel from the author of White Peak Farm. Fifteen-year-old James, a champion diver, narrates most of the story, which is interwoven with brief but poignant passages in the...
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Berlie Doherty, Author Orchard Books (NY) $0 (131p) ISBN 978-0-531-05754-4
At a turning point in Jess's lifethe night before she goes abroad for a yearshe reflects on the key events in her relatives' lives, when they met their mates and married. No mystery accompanies these stories of romancethey are ground, instead, in...
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Berlie Doherty, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14442-5
Berlie Doherty is best known as a children's author, and her first novel for adults has the otherworldly air of a creepy bedtime story. Unhappy and lonely, Rose Doran makes the mistake of falling in love with William, a glamorous young tap dancer...
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Berlie Doherty, Author, Aan P. Andrew, Author, Ian P. Andrew, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0700-5
With poetic language, Doherty (Granny Was a Buffer Girl) creates an enigmatic bedtime fantasy. Every night a boy and his dog awaken to see the midnight man who ""comes riding through the town on his midnight horse with its hushing hooves."" The two...
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Berlie Doherty, Author, Ivan Bates, Illustrator , illus. by Ivan Bates. Collins $17.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-00-710433-8
With a tone as peaceful as the English countryside it depicts, Doherty's (Daughter of the Sea
) tale also sports the elements of a frisky read-aloud. Coconut, a donkey, comes to school every day with Mrs. Pie, the school's free-spirited cook.
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Berlie Doherty, Author, Michael Moorcock, Author, Keith Bowen, Illustrator Dial Books $14 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1343-7
Rachel desperately wants to participate in pet day at school, but her parents tell her that Snowy, the white horse that tows the family's barge, will be working at the time. But not to worry: in this heartwarming if idealized story, Rachel's...
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Berlie Doherty, Author, DK Publishing, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $14.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2469-3
A vast, Nordic setting and a hauntingly melodic tone evoking the rhythm of its harbors anchor this selkie tale. Weaving together ancient stories from Iceland, Scotland and Ireland, Doherty (The Snake-Stone) tells of Gioga, the daughter taken in by...
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Berlie Doherty, Author, Jane Ray, Illustrator , illus. by Jane Ray. Frances Lincoln $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-84507-292-6
What dreams may come when the moon is full? Only Doherty (Granny Was a Buffer Girl
; Fairy Tales
) and her title character know for sure in this evocative, gently eerie picture-book fantasy. When the moon is "round as apples," a girlish...
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Berlie Doherty, Author, Jane Ray, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $19.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0997-9
Two accomplished artists here join forces to create a fairy tale anthology. The happy-ever-after result is this elegant volume, which blends Doherty's (Dear Nobody) superb retellings of 12 favorite stories and Ray's (Hansel and Gretel) sumptuous...
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