Carolyn Meyer, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-200638-9
Through exhaustively researched data and personal interviews, Meyer presents compelling portraits of three diverse nations. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Carolyn Meyer. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4814-0326-9
As she has done in Cleopatra Confesses, Victoria Rebels, and other titles, Meyer imagines the life of a historical royal, this time Anastasia Romanova, the teenage daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. On the cusp of the revolution that will doom...
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Carolyn Meyer. Boyds Mills/Calkins Creek, $17.95 (348p) ISBN 978-1-62091-652-0
A suitable fit for American Girl series graduates, this diary-style historical novel follows the adventures of independent-minded 16-year-old Katherine “Kitty” Evans, who sets off on her own in 1926. It comes as a blow to Kitty when her parents...
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Carolyn Meyer, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $14.95 (202p) ISBN 978-0-689-50508-9
Alex is ambivalent about spending the summer at his grandmother's house: while he relishes the prospect of spending time away from his overprotective mother, he is reluctant to return to the site of the shooting accident that years ago left him...
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Carolyn Meyer, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (240p) ISBN 978-0-15-201906-8
This riveting slice of fictional royal history paints a sympathetic portrait of Henry VIII's oldest daughter, before she earns the title Bloody Mary. Trained not to weep in public, the young princess puts on a steely front but lives in constant fear
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Carolyn Meyer, Author Graphia Books $6 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-200190-2
Meyer (Rio Grande Stories; White Lilacs) paints a bracing picture of conservative small-town America in this riveting examination of intolerance and anti-Semitism. Fresh from a year on a kibbutz and sick of endless fights with her Israeli mother, 14-
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Carolyn Meyer, Author Harcourt Children's Books $11 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-200441-5
Meyer (Rio Grande Stories; White Lilacs) paints a bracing picture of conservative small-town America in this riveting examination of intolerance and anti-Semitism. Fresh from a year on a kibbutz and sick of endless fights with her Israeli mother, 14-
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Carolyn Meyer, Author Harcourt Children's Books $13 (256p) ISBN 978-0-15-200641-9
Based, as the author explains in an endnote, on an event that took place in 1921-22, this somber, moving story focuses on prejudice, injustice and everyday bravery. When the city council of Dillon, Tex., unveils its plans to raze Freedomtown--an all-
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Carolyn Meyer, Author Starfire $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-28802-5
Teen suicide is the theme of this first book in the Hotline series, which concerns high schoolers helping troubled classmates via a telephone hotline. After learning of her best friend Lissa's suicide, Jenny, 17, attempts to understand what...
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Carolyn Meyer, Author . Harcourt/Gulliver $6 (227p) ISBN 978-0-15-216456-0
PW called this sympathetic portrait of Henry VIII's oldest daughter, before she earns her sanguinary nickname, a "riveting slice of fictional royal history." Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Carolyn Meyer, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $12.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-689-50413-6
The product of a failed interracial marriage, Denny has been brought up by his white mother. But he ruefully notes that no one is ""only'' half-black. When his stepfather hurls a racial epithet at him, Denny takes off on a cross-country search for...
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Carolyn Meyer, Author Atheneum Books $0 (193p) ISBN 978-0-689-50368-9
In her 24th novel, Meyer again invests the chararacters with the humanity that makes them memorable. Win Kelly, 14, tells about events after a group in Santa Fe, providing adult male companions to fatherless boys, signs him up with Elliott Deerfield.
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Carolyn Meyer, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-15-200637-2
For five weeks in 1985, Meyer crisscrossed South Africa, interviewing families and students from many groupsEnglish, Afrikaner, Asian, black and racially mixed or ""coloured.'' In one aimto give a feel for South African territory, history and...
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Carolyn Meyer, Author Gulliver Books $17 (198p) ISBN 978-0-15-216544-4
Patience, Princess Catherine by Carolyn Meyer is the fourth title in the Young Royals series. Opening with the musings of the displaced Catherine of Aragon, imprisoned by her husband Henry VIII and supplanted by Anne Boleyn, the story flashes...
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Carolyn Meyer, Author . Harcourt $17 (321p) ISBN 978-0-15-206194-4
Focusing on Charles Darwin's youth, this historical novel hooks readers with a revelatory opener: Darwin's nose almost kept him off the Beagle
—the captain believed that facial features indicated character and the 22-year-old Darwin&#
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Carolyn Meyer, Author . Harcourt/Gulliver $17 (255p) ISBN 978-0-15-205116-7
As with her Young Royals series, Meyer's ability to sweep readers to another time and place while bringing historic figures to life once again results in a mesmerizing novel. Here she offers an imaginative rendering of Marie van Goethem, the...
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Carolyn Meyer, Author . Harcourt/Gulliver $5.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-15-204556-2
This second title in the series of historical novels based on prominent women of the United Kingdom, begun with Mary, Bloody Mary, chronicles the first 25 years in the life of Queen Elizabeth I. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Carolyn Meyer, Author, Carolyn Meyer, Compiled by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-15-200066-0
Meyer ( Where the Broken Heart Still Beats ; White Lilacs ) imaginatively explores multicultural aspects of the American Southwest in this rich collection of linked short stories. As part of a fund-raising project, a class of 15 junior-high students
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Carolyn Meyer, Author, Liz Van Doren, Editor Harcourt Children's Books $17 (240p) ISBN 978-0-15-216523-9
Carolyn Meyer's Young Royals series continues with Doomed Queen Anne, based on the tragic events of Anne Boleyn's life. Told in the first person, Meyer's novel sensitively portrays Boleyn's childhood (at 13, she declared she would one day be...
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Carolyn Meyer, Author, Meyer Carolyn, Author . Bridge Works $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-882593-68-2
Meyer, a children's and YA author, makes a charming adult debut with this novel about a woman who leaves a stale job and reluctant suitor to go back to her home town and live in close proximity to a mother she never really understood. Dorcas...
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