Bruce Clements, Author . FSG/Sunburst $5.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-43539-4
Fourteen-year-old Henry tells a casual lie that raises his older brother's suspicions that their cousin might be living among Indians in the Dakota Territory; the lie ends up sending him and his brother 500 miles up the Missouri River in 1848....
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Bruce Clements, Author . FSG $16 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-37701-4
This picaresque work opens right where its predecessor, I Tell a Lie Every So Often
(1974), left off. It's 1849, and Henry Desant (a literary descendant of Huck Finn) sets off from St. Louis for Paris, where his older brother, Clayton, has...
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Bruce Clements, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-48016-5
In a poignant first novel, a brother and sister find themselves in a community of people who have stopped aging. Ages 10-up. (September)
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Bruce Clements, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (179p) ISBN 978-0-374-37746-5
Orphaned Laurel Bybank is on her way to take up her post as maidservant to Alice Plunderell, heiress of the Plunderell fortune. When Laurel nears the manor, she is stopped on the road by young John Frame, a former steward to the estate. John warns...
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Bruce Clements, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $3743.76 (167p) ISBN 978-0-374-37673-4
No one has ever loved a girl as Tom loves Anna, or so it seems to him. From the first moment he sees her he is constantly by her side, sketching her picture, helping her ailing aunt and fiercely protecting Anna from her deceased brother's overly...
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Bruce Clements, Author Sunburst $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-47962-6
Employed as a maid at Plunderell Manor, 14-year-old Laurel must foil a dastardly plot hatched by her mistress's scheming relatives; PW said, ``This lively adventure tale, with its cast of eccentric characters, will keep young readers enthralled.''...
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Bruce Clements, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $3.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-374-47939-8
First love is examined from a male perspective in this mood piece best enjoyed, said PW, by those who want a quiet, intimate reading experience. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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