Dyan Sheldon, Author . Candlewick $7.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2828-4
PW
called Lola, star of Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
(releasing simultaneously with a new paperback cover to match; 0-7636-2827-1
), an "irresistible heroine glittering with wit and charm." Here Lola urges perfect Ella to run...
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Dyan Sheldon. Candlewick, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9354-1
Using a droll third-person narrative, Sheldon (The Truth About My Success) hilariously chronicles an endearingly dorky teenager’s first infatuation. Josh Shine is smitten with new girl Jena Capistrano the first time he sees her, but she ignores him...
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Dyan Sheldon. Candlewick, $16.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7272-0
Sheldon (One or Two Things I Learned About Love) offers a fun, contemporary twist on the “Prince and the Pauper” theme. It all starts when 16-year-old TV star Paloma Rose gets caught up in a scandal. Unbeknownst to Paloma, her narcissistic mother...
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Dyan Sheldon. Candlewick, $15.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6665-1
Hildy has always wanted a boyfriend, and at 17 she finally meets Connor. "Just being near him made me feel fizzy," she writes in her diary. The mellow middle daughter in a highly dramatic family, Hildy often feels overlooked, and Connor gives her...
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Dyan Sheldon. Candlewick, $16.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5018-6
Going green is initially more about romance than righteousness for high school rivals Sicilee and Maya, but their attempts to do so provide lots of laughs. It all begins when the girls vie for the attention of gorgeous new student Cody Lightfoot (“Hi
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Dyan Sheldon, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2740-9
\x93Never forget that you\x92re British,\x94 counsels the grandmother of Sheldon\x92s (Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen) incisively wry 16-year-old British narrator. Sophie is spending the summer in New York with her mother\x92s friend from art...
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Dyan Sheldon, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0822-4
When native New Yorker Mary Elizabeth Cep and her ""astoundingly unimaginative"" family move to New Jersey, Mary Elizabeth, who plans to be an actress some day, changes her name to Lola and zealously begins a campaign to enrich the ""humdrum"" lives
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Dyan Sheldon, Author Candlewick Press (MA) $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-56402-139-7
Jenny and Amy's longtime friendship begins to unravel soon after the girls begin high school. Much to aspiring astrophysicist Jenny's dismay and astonishment, level-headed Amy starts hanging around with cheerleaders, highlights her hair and gives up
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Dyan Sheldon, Candlewick, $15.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4555-7
Something happened to end Gracie's best friendship with the beautiful, beloved yet ditzy Savanna but Gracie won't say what. Instead Sheldon (Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen) unfolds their friendship's demise slowly, developing the complex...
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Dyan Sheldon, Author . Candlewick $14.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2048-6
In this often funny but ultimately disappointing novel, 16-year-old Janet journals about life in the "Dark Phase," in which she and her best friend, Disha, attempt to "be in touch with the real
stuff. The deep
pain and joy." In her
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Dyan Sheldon, Author, Tania Hurt-Newton, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-332-2
After Brenda accidentally leaves her blue teddy bear, Pete, on the bus, her mother phones the lost and found, but to no avail. Brenda mopes, but three days later, she gets a surprise: a postcard from Pete, sent from London. ``He must have gotten on...
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Dyan Sheldon, Author, Marci Roth, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1839-1
Lola, star of Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and called by PW an ""irresistible heroine glittering with wit and charm,"" returns in My Perfect Life by Dyan Sheldon. Here, Lola urges perfect Ella to run against the (in PW's words) ""delicious
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Dyan Sheldon, Author, Derek Brazell, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $4.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0383-0
The sequel to My Brother Is a Visitor from Another Planet once again features Adam coming to terms with his older brother--and a group of bullies as well. Ages 8-11. (Apr.)
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Dyan Sheldon, Author, Gary Blythe, Illustrator Dial Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1670-4
Like Sheldon and Blythe's previous collaboration, The Whales' Song , winner of the 1991 Kate Greenaway medal, this exquisite picture book is imbued with the magic of nature and dreams. When Jenny finds an arrowhead in her backyard, her mother tells...
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Dyan Sheldon, Author, Gary Blythe, Illustrator, Gary Blythe, Photographer Dial Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0972-0
In this haunting, evocative picture book, Lilly's grandmother tells her that, when she was young, she used to leave gifts for the whales--``a perfect shell. Or a beautiful stone. And if they liked you, the whales would take your gift and give you...
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Dyan Sheldon, Author, Neil Reed, Author, Neil Reed, Illustrator Dial Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2284-2
The cart comes before the unicorn in this message-driven tale, a lackluster ode to imagination. At school, Dan spies a unicorn out of the window. His teacher accuses him of daydreaming and the other children laugh and label him Dreamy Dan. More...
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Dyan Sheldon, Author, Emily Bestler, Editor Villard Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40691-4
An unattached, straight 34-year-old man--a rare commodity in '90s Manhattan--is the protagonist of Sheldon's ( Dreams of an Average Man ) entertaining satire. After a widely publicized magazine article warns women that their chances of marrying are...
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Dyan Sheldon, Author, Ellen Thompson, Illustrator, Doron Ben-Ami, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0004-4
In Sheldon's (Tall, Thin, and Blonde) uninspired novel of teenage romance, starry-eyed girls still fall for god-like boys (who inevitably turn out to be jerks), blind to the fact they have more in common with a less charismatic, but more sincere ""bo
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Dyan Sheldon, Author, Helen Cusack, Illustrator Oxford University Press, USA $10.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-19-520643-2
In this modern variation of the Cinderella story, Alison is a disheveled, untidy girlqualities cited by her aunt and cousins when they won't let her attend the Prince's ball. The housekeeper makes her a dress, other friends provide jewelry and a cab
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