Claudia Mills, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $13.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-02-767101-8
Dinah loves to be the center of attention. Whether by changing names to confuse a substitute teacher, dancing with the janitor's broom or memorizing the longest poem in the class, Dinah is always attempting to impress her friends with her...
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Claudia Mills. FSG/Ferguson, $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-30164-4
There are two things that seventh-grader Autumn wants: to become a published writer and for her older brother, Hunter, to go back to being “the best brother in the world.” Ever since starting 10th grade and joining a band, he’s been mean to both...
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Claudia Mills, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-34659-1
This engaging sequel to Losers, Inc. and You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman gives the title character of the latter novel a minor role, while placing the refreshingly candid Lizzie Archer center stage. Determined to shake off her reputation as a...
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Claudia Mills, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-34661-4
Ethan Winfield is so sure the world is stacked against him that he keeps a daily report called ""Life Isn't Fair: A Proof."" The untalented younger brother of perfect Peter, he is unpopular and a bad student, and so, with his woebegone best friend,...
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Claudia Mills, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $14 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-31788-1
Seventh grade looks promising for Dinah Seabrooke, star of Dynamite Dinah and Dinah for President, until she learns from her science teacher that the sun is going to burn out in a ``mere'' five billion years. Distraught that all human...
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Claudia Mills, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $14 (126p) ISBN 978-0-02-766999-2
In this sequel to Dynamite Dinah , Dinah Seabrooke, now in sixth grade and determined to find her place in the big pond, runs for class president. At the same time, she is enlisted by her mother, an organizational consultant, to help clean out the...
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Claudia Mills, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $15 (151p) ISBN 978-0-02-767011-0
Hannah loves her dolls, her eccentric parents, her sketch pad and pencils and her cat, Hildegarde. Life is good--except for the fact that Hannah has to go to school. All the other girls think she is a baby and won't be seen near her, until popular...
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Claudia Mills, Author Avon Books $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-70894-9
``Mills chronicles the concerns of this age group with grace and aplomb,'' said PW about this realistic and humorous look at the consequences of a bold 10-year-old girl's run-in with a strict teacher. Ages 8-12. (Jan.)
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Claudia Mills, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $10.95 (110p) ISBN 978-0-02-767090-5
Cynthia is a fifth grader; Lucy, her sister, is in fourth. Cynthia wants to be a writer; Lucy, an astronomer. In a welcome switch from sibling rivalry stories, these two usually get along very well, throwing each other into hysterics over jokes that
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Claudia Mills, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $3.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-689-80325-3
In this follow-up to Dynamite Dinah and Dinah for President, the ever-spirited Dinah Seabrooke is publicity chairperson of the sixth-grade sock hop committee, dateless, and faced with the prospect of going to the dance with the most annoying boy in...
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Claudia Mills, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $3.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-689-71591-4
Events conspire to force the engagingly egocentric Dinah to relinquish her beloved spotlight. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)
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Claudia Mills, Author Yearling Books $2.75 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-15559-4
A funny and moving story about Cynthia's need to be unique, even though her look-alike little sister has just joined her in some fifth-grade classes. Ages 8-12. (January)
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Claudia Mills, Author Yearling Books $2.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-15524-2
Third-grader Melanie's real last name is Moore, but all her friends are choosing new first or last names: Kate wants to be called ""Cupcake'', and Jenny wants to be ``Ginger Pye.'' So Melanie selects ``Magpie.'' She hates the worms that appear on...
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Claudia Mills, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-374-35652-1
Mills (How Oliver Olson Changed the World) delivers a compassionate story about life with a bipolar parent. Eleven-year-old Cooper and his younger sister, Carly, consider their life in Colorado "normal" until their widowed mother begins to sleep all
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Claudia Mills, Author, Catherine Stock, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (48p) ISBN 978-0-374-32816-0
Grandpa comes up with a great idea for Gus's disguise in Gus and Grandpa and the Halloween Costume, the eighth title in the beginning reader series by Claudia Mills, illus. by Catherine Stock.
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Claudia Mills, Author, Catherine Stock, Illustrator, Catherine Stock, Photographer Farrar Straus Giroux $6.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-374-42847-1
""This wry trio of tales features an engagingly imperfect boy and his engagingly imperfect grandfather,"" said PW of this first installment of a series for beginning readers. Ages 6-8. (Mar.)
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Claudia Mills, illus. by Katie Kath. Knopf, $14.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-385-39161-0
Fourth-grader Nora Alpers is determined to defy the odds in this entertaining tale, first in the Nora Notebooks series. The youngest child of scientist parents, Nora wants to follow the path where experimentation and data govern decisions. Utterly...
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Claudia Mills, Author, R. W. Alley, Illustrator , illus. by R.W. Alley. FSG $16 (89p) ISBN 978-0-374-30657-1
Mills (the Gus and Grandpa books) introduces an ingenuous, likable lad whose fourth-grade teacher assigns each student a biography to write, based on a book of at least 100 pages. When Riley hears that at project's end the students will attend a
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Claudia Mills, Author, Jacqueline Rogers, Illustrator , illus. by Jacqueline Rogers. FSG $16 (128p) ISBN 978-0-374-31244-2
Mills (the Gus and Grandpa books) takes this knowing middle-grade novel into less traveled territory: Chelsea, the nine-year-old perfection-seeking protagonist, spends a lot of time at church and Sunday school and thinks about religion, both her own
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Claudia Mills, Author, David M. McPhail, Illustrator, Catherine Stock, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $13 (48p) ISBN 978-0-374-32824-5
The first installment in a projected series, this wry trio of tales features a engagingly imperfect boy and his engagingly imperfect grandfather. Gus here makes three visits to Grandpa's house. The first time, he plays mainly with Skipper the dog,...
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Claudia Mills, illus. by Rob Shepperson. FSG/Ferguson, $15.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-374-37485-3
When the principal of Kelsey’s school announces a month-long reading contest, Kelsey is positive she will lead her third-grade class to victory. Kelsey loves books like her best friends, Annika and Izzy, love math and running, and nothing is going...
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Glaudia Mills, Author, Claudia Mills, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $13.95 (125p) ISBN 978-0-02-767041-7
Heidi, 10, a fair-minded fifth grader, is only too anxious to take on the strict Mrs. Richardson, whose reputation as the meanest teacher at school seems well deserved. Her sarcasm slays Heidi's meek best friend Lynette, but Heidi--who loves doing...
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Claudia Mills. Holiday House/Ferguson, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5038-1
Two presumed-white Colorado sixth-grader best friends named Elizabeth—known as “Bumble” and “Lizard,” respectively—navigate their shifting friendship in this tender novel-in-verse by Mills (Zero Tolerance). According to Betsy’s disapproving mother,...
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Claudia Mills, illus. by Grace Zong. Holiday House/Ferguson, $15.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4093-1
In the sugar-dusted opening scene of this engaging series debut, Nixie Ness observes that “the only thing better than baking cupcakes was baking cupcakes on a Friday afternoon with your best friend in the whole world.” Mills (the Franklin School...
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Claudia Mills. Holiday House/Ferguson, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-82345-710-6
Mills (The Lost Language) centers characters navigating personal changes against a potent backdrop of tree conservation in this emotionally authentic novel. Until recently, seventh grader Zeke has been homeschooled by his idealistic vegan parents,...
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