Betty Hicks, Author . Millbrook/Roaring Brook $15.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7613-1748-7
Although the premise sounds a bit like a sitcom—a sixth-grader with dreams of basketball glory learns to come to terms with his new blended family—Hicks's first novel is both humorous and heartfelt. Nick Kimble is anything but...
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Betty Hicks, Author . Millbrook/Roaring Brook $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7613-1891-0
Like her I Smell Like Ham, Hicks pens another engaging novel about the ups and downs of living in a family formed from two second marriages. "Elizabeth" to her beautiful and proper mother (an efficiency expert who travels frequently for...
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Betty Hicks, Author . Roaring Brook/Brodie $15.95 (168p) ISBN 978-1-59643-004-4
As Hicks's (I Smell Like Ham)
spry story opens, 12-year-old Stuart is grounded yet again by Jamie, his over-protective single mother. The woman, according to her frustrated son, "presto-chango
, sometime after his twelfth birthday, when he...
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Betty Hicks, Author . Roaring Brook/Brodie $15.95 (169p) ISBN 978-1-59643-061-7
Through four distinct voices, Hicks (Busted!
) crafts an endearing portrait of a newly blended family that includes Eric and his sister V, who have moved with their father from Chicago to North Carolina to live with Lily, her brother, Parker, and...
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Betty Hicks, Author . Roaring Brook/Brodie $16.95 (184p) ISBN 978-1-59643-089-1
Narrated by straight-thinking Dez, Hicks's (Out of Order
) poignant novel is indisputably real from the start. A self-proclaimed "neat-oholic," this 13-year-old sometimes wonders how she can be related to her poetry-spewing Duke...
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Betty Hicks, Author B. Hicks $12.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-88197-125-5
Hicks, a member of the LPGA tour for nearly 20 years, dealt frequently with the problem of how to prepare food in hotel rooms without kitchens. One example of her ingenuity recounted here: a recipe for Armenian meatballs to be cooked in the bottom...
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Betty Hicks, illus. by Ben Hatke. Roaring Brook, $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59643-490-5
Being funny has earned Ellis the admiration of his classmates, but the fourth-grader’s life is pretty serious at the moment. His injured father needs an operation that requires money his family doesn’t have; his mother is working constantly; and...
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