Catherine Dexter, Author Morrow Junior Books $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-07383-1
Winnie and her friend Harry have only the city schoolyard to hang out in, with its broken glass and graffiti-covered walls. But one day a cat they've found runs through a spray-painted maze they discover--and disappears. Winnie, too, runs the maze,...
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Catherine Dexter, Author Morrow Junior Books $14 (199p) ISBN 978-0-688-09425-6
``I have gotten power over the spells which are mine . . . my parents will not wake up.'' Maggie has acquired mysterious powers since she found the mummy cat and met up with a sinister museum curator. But the ancient Egyptian magic that allows her...
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Catherine Dexter, Author Morrow Junior Books $15 (204p) ISBN 978-0-688-11332-2
Dexter's (Mazemaker; The Gilded Cat) well-crafted science-fiction thriller centers on an eighth grader who, unbeknownst to her teachers and fellow students, is actually an alien planning to gain control of her classmates so that she can transport...
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Catherine Dexter, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0515-5
Dexter (Safe Return) creates a strong heroine in this story of first love, loss and forgiveness. As the novel opens, 14 -year-old Mattie Lewis arrives in White Stone, S. Dak., where her mother has sent her to spend the summer with Belle, an old...
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Catherine Dexter, Author, Capucine Mazille, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-56402-541-8
Ten-year-old Apple Olson leads a fairly normal life except for the fact that her mother is a witch--not the green-faced, evil-spirited variety, but a ""minor, neighborhood type"" who uses spells for ""small, everyday things."" Trouble brews when...
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