Chris Lynch, Author HarperCollins Children's Books $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-028330-8
With this unsettling, coolly polished novel, Lynch (Gypsy Davey; the Blue-Eyed Sons series) demonstrates once again his profound understanding of society's casualties, misfits and losers. Whitechurch, where 16-year-old narrator Oakley resides alone (
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Chris Lynch, Author HarperTrophy $6.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-447142-8
In a starred review, PW called this novel featuring the wisecracking, irrepressible narrator of Slot Machine ""witty and knowing."" Ages 12-up. (Jan.)n
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Chris Lynch, Author HarperCollins $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-028176-2
Despite the redemptive themes suggested by its title and its division into three sections expansively entitled ""Faith,"" ""Hope"" and ""Charity,"" Lynch's (Whitechurch) latest novel focuses on the dark and murky corners of its main character's...
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Chris Lynch, Author HarperCollins $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-441098-4
""Through a 13-year-old boy's first-person narration, Lynch lays bare the pivotal period in adolescence when the world changes from the black-and-white simplicity of childhood innocence to the gray area of adulthood,"" said PW in a starred review.
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Chris Lynch, Author HarperTrophy $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-447121-3
Not the standard feel-good paperback series, the Blue-Eyed Son trilogy takes a harrowing tour of Irish Boston's mean streets, with 15-year-old Mick as guide. Here is a world inhabited by beings one step down on the evolutionary and social scale from
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Chris Lynch, Author HarperTrophy $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-447123-7
Not the standard feel-good paperback series, the Blue-Eyed Son trilogy takes a harrowing tour of Irish Boston's mean streets, with 15-year-old Mick as guide. Here is a world inhabited by beings one step down on the evolutionary and social scale from
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Chris Lynch, Author HarperTrophy $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-447122-0
Not the standard feel-good paperback series, the Blue-Eyed Son trilogy takes a harrowing tour of Irish Boston's mean streets, with 15-year-old Mick as guide. Here is a world inhabited by beings one step down on the evolutionary and social scale from
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Chris Lynch, Author HarperCollins Publishers $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-440655-0
In this series launch of The He-Man Women Haters Club, the ever-prolific Lynch (Political Timber; the Blue-Eyed Son trilogy) engagingly addresses questions important to the average adolescent male, namely: what is a ""strong"" man, and what to do...
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Chris Lynch, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-028040-6
Elvin Bishop, the wisecracking, irrepressible narrator of Slot Machine, is back, and he is just as funny--and perhaps even more likable. Now in his first year at a Catholic boys' high school, the pudgy hero has one scatological misadventure after...
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Chris Lynch, Author HarperCollins $7.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-447143-5
In a starred review of this story set in a dilapidated New England town, PW wrote, ""With this unsettling, coolly polished novel, the author demonstrates once again his profound understandings of society's casualties, misfits and losers."" Ages 12-up
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Chris Lynch, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-028174-8
Lynch's (Gypsy Davey; Slot Machine) latest novel is set in 1975 Boston, when the Gold Dust Twins, Fred Lynn and Jim Rice, play for the Red Sox and school bussing has begun. Seventh-grade narrator Richard Riley Moncreif sees the world in terms of the
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Chris Lynch, Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-689-84790-5
During a soccer game early in Lynch's latest novel, 17-year-old Xan, enraged by opponents' unsportsmanlike antics, fouls a player so hard that he's given a two-week suspension. Reading this story of economic and emotional desperation is only...
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Chris Lynch. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-545-27029-8
Lynch (Inexcusable) has trouble finding the emotional core of his Vietnam War novel, first in a planned series, making the story’s outcome feel both inevitable and pointless. When Rudi—one in a group of four tight-knit 18- and 19-year-old friends in
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Chris Lynch. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-41692-702-0
Lynch (Angry Young Man) mixes tragedy, psychological drama, and action to tell a story about testing the bounds of family loyalty. Daniel loves Da, his grandfather, and is heartbroken over Da's increasing memory loss and dementia. He's also...
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Chris Lynch. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4424-4011-1
Seventeen-year-old runaway Kevin arrives in Crystal City with little more than a cast on his arm, the nickname Kiki Vandeweghe (after the former NBA star), and the address for his estranged uncle Sydney, the family’s black sheep. Asked how he got...
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Chris Lynch. Algonquin Young Readers, $17.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-61620-250-7
In this brutal, no-holds-barred drama, Lynch (Killing Time in Crystal City) paints a grim portrait of a teen addicted to the physicality of high-impact sports like football. Arlo Brodie, an up-and-coming freshman linebacker, discovers a talent for...
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Chris Lynch. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4814-2985-6
Lynch returns to the story of Keir Sarafian, the newly graduated high school football star who was accused of date rape in 2005’s Inexcusable. Though Keir maintains that he is not a rapist, he abandons his hometown and post-graduation plans, moving...
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Chris Lynch, Author . HarperCollins $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-028178-6
The "old haunts" in each of Lynch's (Freewill) 10 short stories will not only linger with his characters but with readers as well. The author once again excels in describing family bonds; he opens with an especially well-drawn portrayal...
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Chris Lynch, Author HarperCollins $14.89 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-023585-7
In its voice, setting, characters and action, this wry account of a Catholic boys' high school orientation camp is so different from Gypsy Davey, Lynch's grim chronicle of urban lowlife, that at first glance it hardly seems to be by the same author.
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Chris Lynch, Author HarperCollins $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-447114-5
A disaffected hockey player tries to use the sport's violence to reconcile his inner turmoil. ``Despite the solid sports angle, this one,'' in PW's words, ``falls short of a goal.''Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Chris Lynch, Author HarperCollins $6.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-447112-1
According to PW, this debut novel about two brothers growing up in a poor neighborhood near Boston is ``often moving, occasionally funny and quite promising.'' Ages 10-up. (May)
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Chris Lynch, Author HarperCollins $15 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-023340-2
Like his more controlled Shadow Boxer , Lynch's second novel filters adolescent angst through a believable sports setting. Eric, the narrator, lives for hockey and his collection of offbeat pets. A disaffected kid, Eric starts to hang around the...
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Chris Lynch, HarperTeen, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-167379-5
Lynch (Inexcusable) again expertly explores the gap between public perception and reality. When Russell's firefighter
father dies (along with the father of his childhood friend and neighbor, DJ), the entire town treats the two grieving teenagers as
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Chris Lynch, Author . Scholastic $16.99 (158p) ISBN 978-0-545-02793-9
Setting this adventure in the future, Lynch (Inexcusable
) plays on themes dear to middle-schoolers: the bond between children and animals, the mistrust of authority, the double edge of technology that offers shortcuts but erodes independence. Zane,
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Chris Lynch, Author . HarperCollins $16.99 (232p) ISBN 978-0-06-074037-5
Secrets and their devastating effects is the theme of Lynch's (Freewill
) intense novel that hints at sexual abuse by a priest. Narrator Drew, Skitz and Hector attend a Catholic school and have been friends since their first day, but this year,...
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Chris Lynch, Author . Atheneum/Seo $16.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-689-84789-9
High school senior Keir Sarafian may remind Lynch fans of Earl Pryor, the narrator of Who the Man
. Though more intelligent than Earl, Keir is also an unreliable narrator, whose reporting belies to readers the unintended results of his ungainly...
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Chris Lynch, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-623940-8
"We won't dwell on that now," says narrator Vi McLuckie's dad whenever she tries to talk to him about any of their family's numerous bereavements, which include two Mrs. McLuckies as well as an extensive parade of pets. His...
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Chris Lynch, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-623938-5
"Right and wrong is a simple deal, and everybody knows it. As long as you have all the facts, right and wrong make themselves very clear to you," begins 13-year-old Earl Pryor, who narrates this tale of one life-changing week. Through Earl
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Chris Lynch, Author . HarperTempest $6.99 (148p) ISBN 978-0-06-447202-9
Will, a 17-year-old enrolled in a vocational woodworking class, falls under suspicion when his wood sculptures are found near the site of several teens' mysterious drownings or suicides. According to PW, this novel, narrated by Will in the...
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Chris Lynch, Author . HarperTrophy $5.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-447201-2
Two seventh-graders begin a tenuous friendship in 1975 Boston, when the Gold Dust Twins play for the Red Sox and school busing has begun. "Several provocative situations go unexplored, such as the tension that results from Napoleon being black...
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Chris Lynch, Author, Chris Gall, Illustrator HarperCollins $14 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-023586-4
Here is a book that's meticulously crafted, its prose evocative and lyrical-and almost excruciating to read. The eponymous protagonist and sometime narrator, an outsize boy considered simple, is the lone incorruptible character, an innocent adrift...
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Chris Lynch, Author, Bruce Eagle, Illustrator HarperCollins $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-027360-6
Once more proving his versatility, Lynch shifts gears from the brooding, violent atmosphere of his Native Son trilogy with this cheeky, effervescent tale about a teenager thrust into the world of adult politics. Gordie Foley wants nothing more than...
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Chris Lynch, Author, Lynch, Author HarperTrophy $11 (179p) ISBN 978-0-06-440730-4
""Lynch describes in unflinching detail a squalid, urban scene,"" said PW, calling this novel ""meticulously crafted, its prose evocative and lyrical--and almost excruciating to read."" Ages 12-up. (Oct.) ...
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Chris Lynch. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-4169-2703-7
"I am seventeen years old. Or I was, before my big shitslice of a brother went diving into the quarry and broke his neck and his skull and my grip on the world... Now I'm about seven," says Eric, who still feels unmoored and angry one year after his
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Chris Lynch. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-545-52294-6
The prolific Lynch follows his Vietnam series of novels (including I Pledge Allegiance and, most recently, Casualties of War) with one set during WWII. This first book follows Roman Bucyk, a minor league baseball star who enlists in the U.S. Army in
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Chris Lynch. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4814-5920-4
Lynch (the Special Forces series) explores elements of socioeconomic disparity and anxiety in this hopeful and humorous story of disparate families, friends, and the dogs they care for. The stress surrounding 13-year-old Louis’s fast-approaching...
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