Darcy Pattison. Mims House, $5.99 (178p) ISBN 978-1-62944-098-9
Jamie Kruger hates being so big, towering above the other eighth-grade students at his Arkansas middle school. He’s growing constantly, hungry all the time, and bullied by other kids, especially rival Chan Maxwell. Jamie’s father, who travels for...
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Darcy Pattison, Author, Steven Salerno, Illustrator , illus. by Steven Salerno. Philomel $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24336-3
Gender weighs on the mind of John Hercules Po, the only boy in his kindergarten class. Every day, John's second-grader brother warns that playing with girls turns a guy "into a sissy," and John anxiously asserts he'll turn the girls &
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Darcy Pattison, illus. by Rich Davis. Mims House (www.mimshouse.com), $10.99 paper (116p) ISBN 978-1-62944-021-7
After Kell and his alien parents become stranded on Earth, Kell is forced to enroll as a third-grade student and adjust to life on this planet. (Conveniently, they look just like humans and speak English perfectly well, though they do shed their...
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Darcy Pattison, illus. by Peter Willis. Mims House, $23.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62944-119-1
Pattison offers an inviting story about Charles Darwin, told visually through Willis’s playfully designed paper collage. In 1862, Darwin—rendered as a grandfatherly figure with a bushy beard and eyebrows—is perplexed by the star orchid from...
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Darcy Pattison, Author, Joe Cepeda, Illustrator , illus. by Joe Cepeda. Harcourt $16 (56p) ISBN 978-0-15-202329-4
Part geography lesson, part cross-country travelogue, this tale begins when young Tameka writes to her Uncle Ray in Rock Hill, S.C., and invites him to visit her in Redcrest, Calif. The innovative carpenter—unable to make the trip—build
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Darcy Pattison, Author, Joe Cepeda, Illustrator , illus. by Joe Cepeda. Harcourt $16 (56p) ISBN 978-0-15-205184-6
Pattison and Cepeda bring back the wooden traveler from their The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman
, which recounted his trip from east coast to west to visit a girl named Tameka. This time, however, Oliver's experiences take a back seat to those of
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Darcy Pattison, Author, Mou-Sien Tseng, Illustrator, Jean Tseng, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $13.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-10426-9
Drawing on elements of Chinese dragon lore, Pattison injects this bang-up original folktale with a ring of authenticity. Her story is presented in the traditional ``trial'' form: Ying Shao, a humble blacksmith, must cross the river dragon's bridge...
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Darcy Pattison, illus. by Kitty Harvill. Mims House (www.darcypattison.com), $11.99 paper (32p) ISBN 978-0-9798621-7-5
Pattison (Prairie Storms) offers a remarkable survival story about Wisdom, a female Laysan Albatross first tagged by scientists in 1956 and still alive today, having lived through multiple tsunamis, other natural disasters, and manmade threats to...
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Darcy Pattison, illus. by Kitty Harvill. Mims House (www.mimshouse.com), $13.99 paper (32p) ISBN 978-1-62944-001-9
Pattison and Harvill, who collaborated on Wisdom, the Midway Albatross, return with another real-life animal survival story. This one focuses on a puma cub, born in Brazil in 2012, who was orphaned after his mother was captured by a local chicken...
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