Gillian Cross, Author . Holiday $16.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1685-1
Cross (Tightrope) wraps a haunting tale of spiritual rebirth in gripping, post-Soviet suspense. Devastated when her older brother, John, a demolition expert, is reported killed in an explosion in Siberia, Hayley agrees to accompany his wheelchair-bou
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Gillian Cross, Author . Dutton $15.99 (264p) ISBN 978-0-525-47350-3
A tantalizing mystery lies at the heart of this first book in Cross's (Tightrope
) fantasy trilogy, but its solution is elusive. An enigmatic opening chapter introduces Zak, in the treetops, calling to Cam to "Remember," as he crashes
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Gillian Cross, Author Laurel Leaf Library $2.75 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-96666-1
The victim of a kidnapping, Tug battles fear and brainwashing in this stylishly written thriller. Ages 12-up. (July)
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Gillian Cross, Author Laurel Leaf Library $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-20312-4
Vertsatile Cross charts a girl's course in the heady world of rock 'n' roll. Ages 12-up . (Apr.)
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Gillian Cross, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-038958-6
An amateur photographer discovers that a schoolmate with an abusive father can turn himself into an otter. ""With its intricate construction and its poignantly recognizable characters, this thought-provoking story will linger long in the reader's...
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Gillian Cross, Author Holiday House $15.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0559-6
The British author's first novel, Born of the Sun, scored a hit in England and in America, which this thriller almost surely will also. Cross makes the reader anxious over the fate of a kidnap victim, Tug, and a friend-in-need, Jinny. Hearing...
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Gillian Cross, Author Holiday House $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0870-2
Cassy much prefers her ordinary, well-run life, safe at home with her no-nonsense grandmother. But every so often--never with any warning--she is sent to stay with her mother, Goldie, a dreamy beauty who drifts from one seedy London neighborhood to...
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Gillian Cross, Author Holiday House $17.95 (193p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1016-3
A lucky blunder frees orphaned Tad from his dreary routine in a grim mining town and allows him to begin a new life on the road, caring for the elephant Khush. When Tad's new boss, goodhearted con man Michael Keenan, is killed in a freak accident, a
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Gillian Cross, Author Holiday House $15.95 (171p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1166-5
Miriam, a British teen, has been chosen, seemingly at random, to participate in the secret testing of New World, a cutting-edge virtual-reality game. The game exerts an addictive fascination, but Miriam grows convinced that the program is somehow...
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Gillian Cross, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-038261-7
While observing that this tale of a British teen chosen to test a virtual-reality game is less compelling than the author's previous works, PW nonetheless noted that ""the pace never slackens"" and ""suspense is delivered in wholesale quantities.""...
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Gillian Cross, Author Holiday House $16.95 (197p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1267-9
From the author of Wolf and Chartbreaker comes a spellbinding novel of emotional suspense, spiked with a highly British sort of magical realism. A chain of coincidences leads happy-go-lucky aspiring photographer Charlie Willcox into an edgy...
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Gillian Cross, Author Holiday House $16.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1512-0
Impeccable plotting, a brisk narrative and complex characterizations make this latest from Cross (Wolf; Pictures in the Dark) a novel to read in a single sitting. Fiercely self-reliant Ashley is kept far too busy caring for her sick mother to bother
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Gillian Cross. Holiday House, $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2332-3
Cross (the Dark Ground trilogy) delivers a tightly crafted story about intersecting cultures and conflicted identities, told from three narrative perspectives. In London, down-to-earth Freya feels out of synch with her mother’s world of cutting-edge
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Gillian Cross, illus. by Neil Packer. Candlewick, $19.99 (178p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4791-9
In this stunning, heavily illustrated retelling, Cross (Where I Belong) gives shivery life to Homer’s saga, keeping the suspense taut and recounting the story’s most disturbing events without flinching. When giant, loutish Laestrygonians slaughter...
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Gillian Gross, Author, Gillian Cross, Author Puffin Books $37.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-037014-0
This rollicking yarn concerns an orphan who tries to keep a pachyderm safe from villainous pursuers: PW enjoyed the ``uncommonly thrilling reading'' offered by this ``truthful exploration of growth and change.'' Ages 10-up. (Sept.)
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Gillian Cross, illus. by Sarah Horne. Union Square, $8.99 (72) ISBN 978-1-4549-6035-5
Freckled, white-cued Ryan and his best friend Dot, who reads as Black, are curious about the Ghost Tower,
a purportedly haunted building located near the edge of their quaint village. Determined to explore the structure, fearless Dot persuades...
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