Elizabeth Starr Hill, Author Viking Children's Books $11.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-82201-0
Callie has been hoping since before last Christmas that her mother will come home, so when her dad announces that he is remarrying, Callie is upset. Even though she likes Fran, and would love to live in a house like a real family, and even though...
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Elizabeth Starr Hill, Author Viking Children's Books $13.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-670-83435-8
Fitzi Wolper and her parents are professional mimes who do much of their performing on Manhattan's sidewalks. Stringent dieting, frequent apartment changes and a hat that is passed for donations during shows are part of a life the girl desperately...
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Elizabeth Starr Hill, Author Viking Children's Books $14.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-84967-3
A prequel to Broadway Chances and The Street Dancers , which focused on Clement Dale, the patriarch of a show business family, this uneven novel begins in 1887 and focuses on 12-year-old Jonathan, eventually Clement's plucky grandfather. Abandoned...
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Elizabeth Starr Hill, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-032682-6
``A well-realized setting and good pacing,'' according to PW , flesh out this story of a girl who faces her father's impending remarriage--and the holiday season--with trepidation. Ages 8-12. (Nov.)
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Elizabeth Starr Hill, Author Viking Children's Books $14 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-84197-4
In this sequel to The Street Dancers , Fitzi leaves a self-imposed retirement from show business for the allure of a dance solo in a Broadway musical. She's also understudying lead performer Tiffany Resnick, her nemesis possessed of undeniable star...
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Elizabeth Starr Hill, Author Viking Children's Books $14.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-670-85919-1
Fitzi comes from a New York show biz family, all of whom have roles in a Broadway hit called Crowd Scene. But while Fitzi can put on a big smile and dance in front of countless strangers week after week, she is shy and uncertain in her private life.
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Elizabeth Starr Hill, Author, Sandra Speidel, Illustrator Puffin Books $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-054406-0
Softly modulated drawings match the warmth in this urban story about a city boy who longs for a place of his own. Ages 3-8. (Jan.)
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Elizabeth Starr Hill, Author, Lesley Liu, Illustrator , illus. by Lesley Liu. FSG/Sunburst $5.95 (56p) ISBN 978-0-374-40659-2
"This affecting slice-of-life story" set in Southern China features a mute boy who's family raises cormorants that catch fish for them to sell. "The pace and flow is as rhythmic as the river where he makes his home," wrote PW
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Elizabeth Starr Hill, Author, Lesley Liu, Illustrator, Lesley Liu, Photographer Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (64p) ISBN 978-0-374-30723-3
This affecting slice-of-life story set in Southern China features a mute boy who lives on a houseboat where his family raises cormorants that catch fish for them to sell. Although Chang can't speak, ""the birds seemed to understand his odd squawks...
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Elizabeth Starr Hill, Author, Lesley Liu, Illustrator, Lesley Liu, Other Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (64p) ISBN 978-0-374-31238-1
Chang and the Bamboo Flute by Elizabeth Starr, illus. by Lesley Liu, follows the star of Bird Boy as he and his family are forced to leave their houseboat, damaged in a flood, and live on land. When they return to their river home a few days...
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