Betsy Cromer Byars, Author . Puffin $5.99 (121p) ISBN 978-0-14-240063-0
In a boxed review, PW
called this a "jewel-like novel. In tightly constructed scenes, the author slowly and fluidly unspools the small revelations that aid in the narrator's understanding of the [late-19th-century] world around her."...
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author Viking Children's Books $14.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-670-85487-5
Given a policeman for a father and a private investigator for a mother, could 13-year-old Herculeah Jones be anything but a sleuth? Drafting her neighbor and sometimes reluctant sidekick, Meat, she sets out to uncover the mystery of the decaying...
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author Viking Children's Books $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-84995-6
Having agreed to tend Professor Orloff's greenhouse in his absence, Mozie finds more than he'd bargained for: a human-size, mummy-shaped pod that hums with energy and seems to call to him with a silent but compelling force. His dread of the creature-
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author Viking Children's Books $14.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-670-84491-3
Fans of Bingo's previous books will wish things went better for him here. The story opens with the unexpected sighting of his long-lost heartthrob, Melissa, and closes with the sad revelation that Melissa is not, as hoped, back in town for good. In...
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author Julian Messner $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74166-2
For Byars, meeting an enormous blacksnake on her front porch becomes a springboard for tracing her lifelong love of animals, and also her likes and dislikes, successes and failures as a writer. The result is an appealingly idiosyncratic narrative...
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-14-036080-6
This journal of Bingo's trials of love, presented as an instruction manual for his little brother, is ""poignant and hilarious by turns,"" said PW. Ages 8-12. (Dec.)
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author Viking Children's Books $12.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-82791-6
Bingo, that incomparable optimist from The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown , returns with even bigger issues to challenge him and charm readers. Melissa, the love of his life, has moved away, and Bingo is hit first with an enormous long-distance...
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author Viking Children's Books $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-81932-4
Bingo Brown is one of Byars's most ingenuous and likable male characters since Junior Blossom. He is a fairly ordinary sixth grader, with a number of extraordinary questions, which he faithfully copies down in his journal. Three girls have won his...
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (119p) ISBN 978-0-14-032309-2
A saucily told, sparely written story of a boy who finds his only refuge in the attic, where he can spend hours drawing. Ages 8-12. (September)
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author . Viking $14.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-670-03576-2
Byars (Summer of the Swans) organizes this jewel-like novel into 26 brief chapters, each beginning with a letter of the alphabet, and often resting upon a single image. Amen ("Amie") McBee, born in 1891 and the fifth daughter of a fragile...
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author Yearling Books $3.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-440-40926-7
In a starred review, PW said, ``Byars... brings her knowledge of and enthusiasm for flying'' to this novel about a 13-year-old girl and her grandfather, who travel cross-country in a Piper Cub. Ages 10-14. (Aug.)
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14 (164p) ISBN 978-0-385-30787-1
Byars, a licensed amateur pilot, brings her knowledge of and enthusiasm for flying to this novel of the cross-country flight an impetuous 13-year-old and her grandfather make in his Piper Cub. As they traverse unfamiliar landscapes Birch ventures...
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author Viking Children's Books $12.95 (122p) ISBN 978-0-670-83322-1
The irrepressible Bingo Brown is back, in his most delightful tale yet. It's Christmastime at the Brown house, and what a holiday this is shaping up to be. Bingo's mother is pregnant, and as if the prospect of a sibling isn't enough--at 12, Bingo...
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author Yearling Books $5.5 (160p) ISBN 978-0-440-45951-4
Junior's flight from the barn on his handmade wings lands him in the hospital; his siblings Maggie and Vern are trying to get their Grandpa out of jail; and Grandpa's dog Mud is defying all obstacles to get to his loved one, in a book that PW said ""
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-14-038826-8
A daydreaming television addict encounters the real world in this comic novel by a Newbery Medalist. ""Byars infuses the story with her own special magic,"" said PW. Ages 8-12. (Jan.)
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author HarperTrophy $5.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-440198-2
``One summer two boys and a girl went to a foster home to live together''--the Newbery Medal-winning author chronicles their trials and tribulations in witty and poignant fashion. Ages 10-up. (Jan.)
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author Puffin Books $6.99 (166p) ISBN 978-0-14-032479-2
Whether experimenting with styling mousse or engaging in ``t-shirt wars'' with the class Rambo, the irrepressible Bingo faces life with considerable panache. Ages 8-12. (May)
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author, Cathy Bobak, Illustrator Puffin Books $4.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-14-034518-6
The third starring vehicle for the inimitable Bingo concerns his long-distance relationship--and fame as local authority on matters amatory. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author, Laurie Myers, Author, Betsy Duffey, Author , illus. by Arthur Howard. Holt $15.95 (71p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6888-7
Newbery winner Byars and her two daughters, with whom she collaborated on My Dog, My Hero
, offer a collection of fictional students' responses to their teacher's request for stories about times that they needed to call for help....
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author, Jacqueline Rogers, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (148p) ISBN 978-0-385-30428-3
Fans of the irrepressible Blossom clan will be delighted to learn that their exuberance has spilled over into this fifth volume. With her distinctive blend of compassion and quirky humor, Byars expands the Blossom saga with a story of friendship,...
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author, Jacqueline Rogers, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (134p) ISBN 978-0-385-29485-0
When Maggie's brother-in-law abandons his wife and newborn son, Maggie feels so betrayed that she turns her anger against all menparticularly against the rowdy boys at school and her distant, accomplished father. Maggie's disillusionment, in fact,...
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author, Jacqueline Rogers, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (149p) ISBN 978-0-385-29443-0
Not-just-any novel, Byars's latest races without pause between hilarious, suspenseful and touching crises. Rogers's drawings are fine but almost unneeded; every scene is vividly described from the moment Maggie and Vern await their little brother...
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author, Jacqueline Rogers, Illustrator, Jackie Rogers, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (145p) ISBN 978-0-385-29578-9
The hard-living Blossom family is back in this last title of a remarkable quartet. All the children are anticipating something: Maggie is about to perform with her mother in the rodeo, Vern is preparing to launch a raft on the flooded Snake River...
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author, Guy Byars, Illustrator Puffin Books $5.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-032086-2
A girl communicates with an alien through her computer, and a young cartoonist defends his attic refuge in these ""saucily told, sparely written"" stories. Ages 8-12. (Mar.)
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author, Marc Simont, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $13.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-86664-9
It may not earn Byars (Summer of the Swans) another Newbery Medal or Simont (A Tree Is Nice) another Caldecott, but this volume is tailor-made for kids just beginning to read on their own. For starters, they will immediately take to the admirably...
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author, Richard Cuffari, Illustrator Puffin Books $3.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-14-032308-5
Byars infuses her own special magic into this story of a boy who fails in school but imagines a much different world for himself. Ages 8-12. (April)
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author, Jacqueline Robers, Illustrator, Jacqueline Rogers, Illustrator Yearling Books $5.5 (160p) ISBN 978-0-440-40761-4
Mud, the Blossoms' rambunctious dog who ``had never turned down a walk in his life,'' takes center stage in Byars's event-filled fifth installment about this irrepressible clan. Ages 8-12. (Mar.)
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author, Bill Cigliano, Illustrator HarperTrophy $4.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-442119-5
""Frequently funny lines surface throughout this light-as-cotton-candy, fast-paced novel,"" said PW of this tale about Dorothy, who lands the starring role (Tarzan) in her class play. ""This smooth if wild ride should attract readers of both ...
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author, Bill Cigliano, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-028706-1
""Me Tarzan, you Dwayne,"" gloats Dorothy when she out-screams her nemesis to land the starring role in the class play. Similarly glib, frequently funny lines surface throughout this light-as-cotton-candy, fast-paced novel by Newbery Medalist Byars (
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Betsy Cromer Byars, Author, Jennifer Barrett, Illustrator, Jennifer Barrett, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (74p) ISBN 978-0-06-020885-1
Jackson and his scheming friend Goat, heroes of Cracker Jackson , Byars's compassionate and thoughtfully rendered novel about physical abuse, return in this lighthearted adventure. The boys attempt to outwit each other with a series of treasure...
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