Ellen Toby-Potter, Author, Ellen Potter, Author . MacAdam/Cage $24 (260p) ISBN 978-1-931561-33-4
Reading Toby-Potter's dark, inventive first novel is akin to staring at a pointillist painting, nose against the canvas, and slowly stepping back until the seemingly random points converge to reveal a complete picture. That picture is a...
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Ellen Potter, Author . Philomel $15.99 (166p) ISBN 978-0-399-23995-3
Potter's (the Olivia Kidney books) latest fetchingly outlandish caper introduces the amusingly uppity Clara Frankofile, whose parents own the title Manhattan restaurant, catering to "glittery and fabulous" customers. Alas, not all of...
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Ellen Potter, Feiwel and Friends, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-37772-4
With a dark, witty absurdity suggestive of Lemony Snicket, Potter (the Olivia Kidney books) draws readers into this compelling mystery-adventure about a missing mother. "[S]worn on pain of torture" not to reveal which of the quirky Hardscrabble...
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Ellen Potter. Feiwel and Friends, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-64438-3
In a resonant novel inspired by The Secret Garden, Potter (The Kneebone Boy) pays graceful tribute to the spirit of that classic. The author borrows plot elements effectively, yet her strong characterizations, fluid dialogue, and evocative...
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Ellen Potter, illus. by Qin Leng. Knopf, $14.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-553-49923-0
Second-grade is not off to a good start for Piper Green: her new teacher has a no-nonsense streak, and Piper badly misses her older brother, who is attending high school on the mainland (the Greens live on a tiny Maine island). Skillfully blending...
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Ellen Potter, illus. by David Heatley. Feiwel and Friends, $13.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-01176-3
Potter (The Humming Room) and debut illustrator Heatley team up for a Wimpy Kid–style illustrated novel that follows the unfortunately named Otis Dooda and his family as they move from a "dinky little town" into an apartment on the 35th floor of...
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Ellen Potter, Author, Anne Mazer, Author, Matt Phelan, Illustrator , illus. by Matt Phelan. Roaring Brook/Flash Point $16.99 (275p) ISBN 978-1-59643-628-2
Young scribes may find the tools they need with these guides to the craft.
Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook
Anne Mazer
and Ellen Potter
, illus. by Matt Phelan. Roaring Brook/Flash Point
, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59643-514-8
; $9.99...
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Ellen Potter, Author, Peter H. Reynolds, Illustrator , illus. by Peter Reynolds. Philomel $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-399-23850-5
At once exuberant and poignant, Potter's cunningly crafted first novel can be read on a variety of levels. It starts out like a wacky comedy. Olivia has just moved into a Manhattan apartment with her father, the building's new superintendent,
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Ellen Potter, Author, Peter H. Reynolds, Illustrator . Puffin $5.99 (155p) ISBN 978-0-14-240234-4
Locked out of her new apartment, a 12-year-old makes astonishing discoveries about her neighbors. "Achieving a delicate balance between fantasy and stark reality, the author leaves it to readers to form their own interpretations of Olivia's
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Ellen Potter. McElderry, $18.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-6659-1038-5
Three years after Nell Batista’s brother, River, vanished from Washington Square Park, skipping class to hustle chess players lands seventh grader Nell in the Last Chance Club, an after-school program. She’s there alongside three eighth graders:...
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