Colby F. Rodowsky, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (167p) ISBN 978-0-374-36381-9
Pregnant as the result of a secret rape, Lucy, 17, is faced with a choice: either publicly confess her ``sin'' at her fundamentalist father's tent meeting or be outcast from the family. Knowing that her baby is ``no bad thing,'' Lucy flees to nearby
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (176p) ISBN 978-0-374-31338-8
In this contemporary story, Rodowsky (Spindrift; The Turnabout Shop) adds an element of suspense without compromising the characteristic intimacy of her previous novels. Eleven-year-old narrator Elsie gradually makes clear that she and her autistic...
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-37155-5
Once again Rodowsky (The Turnabout Shop) writes with sensitivity and understanding in profiling an adolescent girl confronting change. Thirteen-year-old Cassie anticipates another tranquil summer in Bethany Beach, Del., her quiet, seaside resort...
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-37889-9
The author of Remembering Mog offers another sensitive rendering of loss, this time focusing on how fifth-grader Livvy begins a new life after her mother's death. Through a series of imaginary notes to her mother (""I decided I would write it out to
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $14 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-34663-8
Once again the author of Sydney, Herself and Hannah in Between shows sensitivity and acute understanding of human nature as she probes the psyche of a troubled adolescent. It has been two years since Annie's older sister Mog was shot and killed by a
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author Sunburst $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-42520-3
In this haunting and inventive novel, a nine-year-old boy who lives with his family in a cemetery's gatehouse finds his life altered by a relative's unexpected visit. Ages 8-12. (Sept.)
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $14 (139p) ISBN 978-0-374-37365-8
The sassy narrator of Sydney, Herself (1989) picks up only three months after that book left off, at the start of her junior year at Hawthorne Hills. Frustratingly, readers are denied the story of what must have been an action-packed summer, in...
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (151p) ISBN 978-0-374-32837-5
Once again Rodowsky ( Julie's Daughter ) is right on target in her expression of the perspective and concerns of a young adolescent in crisis. Twelve-year-old Hannah's childhood comes to a quick halt when she realizes that her mother's drinking is...
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-43973-6
In a boxed review, PW said, Rodowsky arouses one's passionate feelings for the people in her . . . tour de force. Three women take turns as narrator, revealing themselves to the reader as they can't or won't to those close to them. Ages 12-up. (Sept.
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (182p) ISBN 978-0-374-30649-6
When a new writing teacher asks his students to keep journals, Sydney begins hers reluctantly. But gradually her journal and her other writing assignments focus on her belief that she is the daughter of a rock superstar. Not content with her mother's
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $3.5 (149p) ISBN 978-0-374-46032-7
Rodowsky's wry, realistic story of a girl with a leg brace who finds that it doesn't pay to lie to pen palssometimes they show up in person. Ages 10-up. (September)
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (166p) ISBN 978-0-374-32342-4
Rodowsky deftly balances adventure, pathos and surprising comedy in a tale about early days on the New England coast. Sarey-Ann enjoys life with ""Aunt-Mama,'' her late mother's sister, a little brother and her own father, Captain Henry, keeper of...
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (154p) ISBN 978-0-06-000618-1
In this contemporary story, the 11-year-old narrator gradually makes it clear that she and her autistic brother have been stolen away from their father by their emotionally unstable mother. "Readers' eagerness to discover how and when the...
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author . FSG $16 (181p) ISBN 978-0-374-35548-7
Like Rodowsky's The Turnabout Shop, this warmhearted novel traces a displaced orphan's adjustment to a new family. However, unlike its predecessor, this story alternates between two points of view, that of 17-year-old Zachary Pearce, who,...
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author, Kathleen C. Howell, Illustrator, Kathleen C. Howell, Photographer Farrar Straus Giroux $14 (129p) ISBN 978-0-374-36342-0
Rosie Riggs is more than a little dismayed to find out that she will be spending her summer days with a new baby-sitter, the elderly Miss Scott, and Miss Scott's grandniece ``Skinny Bones,'' the weirdest kid in school. At first, vacation turns out...
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author, Beth Peck, Illustrator , illus. by Beth Peck. FSG $15 (80p) ISBN 978-0-374-33671-4
Geared to readers ready for chapter books, Rodowsky's (Not
My Dog) slim story centers on a nine-year-old whose entire family is enamored of ball games. Everyone except Jason, that is. He is a good sport about being dragged along to his brother
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author, Thomas F. Yezerski, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $6.99 (69p) ISBN 978-0-374-45538-5
Ellie's dreams of owning her ideal dog are dashed when she inherits her grandmother's pooch (who eventually wins her over). ""The author is right on target expressing how it feels to receive a gift that is not quite right,""said PW. Ages 7-10. (Apr.)
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author, Thomas F. Yezerski, Illustrator, Thomas F. Yezerski, Photographer Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (80p) ISBN 978-0-374-35531-9
Rodowsky (The Turnabout Shop) is right on target expressing how it feels to receive a gift that is not quite right. For three years, eight-year-old Ellie has been dreaming of getting a dog that will ""give puppy kisses"" and ""skid across the floor,
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Colby F. Rodowsky, Author, Barbara Roman, Illustrator, Barbara J. Romian, Illustrator Bradbury Press $12.95 (39p) ISBN 978-0-02-777785-7
Mama and Papa drop their daughter Jenny off at the stately Victorian home of ``the aunts,'' with whom she is spending a Saturday afternoon. It is her first solo visit, and she is uneasy. In the parlor, the adults sit very still, hands folded in...
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