Elisa Carbone, Author . Viking $15.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-670-03619-6
Exploring well-publicized social issues—violence at high schools, cliques, white supremacist groups—Carbone's (Stealing Freedom) novel juggles a number of themes, with mixed results. Becky, the 15-year-old narrator, initially...
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Elisa Carbone, Viking, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-01185-8
Told through the alternating present-tense perspectives of two runaways who connect through their love of rock climbing, Carbone’s (Blood on the River) picaresque novel is equal parts entertaining and provocative. Strong-willed 16-year-old P.K. runs
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Elisa Carbone, Author Yearling Books $6.5 (258p) ISBN 978-0-440-41707-1
In a starred review,PW called this novel, based on the life of a slave who disguised herself as a boy and escaped at age 13, ""dramatic, often poignant."" Ages 10-up. (Jan.)
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Elisa Carbone, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $17 (272p) ISBN 978-0-679-89307-3
Carbone (Starting School with an Enemy) bases this dramatic, often poignant historical novel on the life of Ann Maria Weems, a Maryland slave who, disguised as a boy, escaped to Canada at the age of 13. When the story opens in 1853, the 11-year-old,
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Elisa Carbone, Author Yearling Books $4.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-679-88640-2
A new girl stands up to the class bully after a major misunderstanding. In a starred review, PW said, ""Carbone shapes characters with such lifelike dimension and through conversation so true that her story is at once comfortably familiar and...
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Elisa Carbone, Author Alfred A. Knopf $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-375-80664-3
Carbone (Stealing Freedom) bases her inspiring and little-known tale on actual rescues made by seven courageous African-Americans during the late 1800s on Pea Island, on the Outer Banks of N.C. The island acted as the base for a division of the...
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Elisa Carbone, Author Alfred A. Knopf $16 (103p) ISBN 978-0-679-88639-6
Carbone's (Corey's Story) frank and energetic voice invigorates a common scenario: an elementary school bully gives a new kid a hard time. But readers will cheer rather than pity spunky Sarah. As the story begins, Sarah is riding her bike when she...
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Elisa Carbone, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-375-80264-5
Fans of Starting School with an Enemy may well be disappointed in this middling sequel. Truth-telling is at the center of Carbone's meandering story, as fifth-grade Sarah and her friends, Christina and new neighbor Olivia, each grapple with a deceit
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Elisa Carbone, Author, Susan B. Weber, Editor, Roy Neuhaus, Illustrator Waterfront Books $11.95 (100p) ISBN 978-0-914525-21-9
This story centers on Corey, a sixth grader who believes that her family and her best friend's are the only ones plagued by parental alcoholism; everyone else, the girl thinks, ``fits in.'' Carbone believably weaves into her story several elements...
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Elisa Carbone, illus. by Jen Hill. Viking, $17.99 (44p) ISBN 978-0-670-01649-5
A 10-year-old living in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s White House finds a way to contribute to the WWII effort in Carbone’s (Heroes of the Surf) endearing picture book, based on a true story. Diana Hopkins, the ever-curious daughter of the...
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Elisa Carbone, Author, E. B. Lewis, Illustrator , illus. by E.B. Lewis. Knopf $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-82247-6
Carbone's (Stealing Freedom
) powerful first picture book, based on a true story, is set in 1838, when James, a young slave, decides to escape his master's Virginia farm and reluctantly tells his noisy dog, Zeus, to stay behind (“One
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