Denis Markell. Delacorte, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-101-93187-5
In this clever debut, Markell takes readers on a clue-filled adventure featuring three 12-year-olds in search of a treasure lost since the waning days of WWII. Ted Gerson is an expert at locked-room video games, priding himself on never needing a...
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Denis Markell. Delacorte, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-64571-9
When his wunderkind older brother goes off to college, 13-year-old Danny, the loquacious narrator of this snappy mystery, can’t wait to move into his bedroom. It will be a welcome change from his converted-closet sleeping quarters in the family’s...
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Denis Markell. Delacorte, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-18066-2
Brooklynite Alexander Davis seeks to engineer a fresh start for seventh grade at affluent Saint Anselm’s, embracing a new look and nickname, and hoping to get into a coveted elective class on video game theory. But when Alex, who reads as white,...
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Denis Markell, Author, Melissa Iwai, Illustrator Cartwheel Books $9.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-439-54651-5
The secrets to The Great Stroller Adventure by Denis Markell, illus. by Melissa Iwai, hide behind full-page flaps in this clever rhyming title. Around town, kids crankily refuse to get in their strollers. But their relatives know better: "" It's not
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Denis Markell, illus. by Melissa Iwai. Little Simon, $9.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4424-4195-8
A monster father attempts to appease his cranky child in a clever riff on the “Hush,
Little Baby” lullaby. “Hush, Little Monster, don’t you howl./ Daddy’s gonna give you a.../ screeching owl./ If that owl won’t say ‘whoo whoo’.../ Granny Ghost will
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