Holly Goldberg Sloan. Little, Brown, $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-12279-5
Screenwriter and director Sloan delivers a cinematic, psychologically nuanced first novel of star-crossed love and the power of human empathy and connection. Sloan excels at crafting memorable characters and relationships, from the central,...
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Holly Goldberg Sloan. Dial, $16.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3855-3
Willow Chance is an extremely precocious and analytical 12-year-old “genius,” and she doesn’t fit in with other kids (though she’d doubtlessly find a kindred spirit in Lauren Tarshis’s Emma-Jean Lazarus). Despite Willow’s social difficulties, she...
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Holly Goldberg Sloan, illus. by Gary A. Rosen. Dial, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8037-4133-1
Appleblossom, a small and brave possum, and her 12 siblings learn from their Mama Possum that the world is a stage and that acting is necessary for survival, especially against the various “monsters” (cars, people, pets) that threaten. Ever the...
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Holly Goldberg Sloan. Dial, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-18621-9
Julia Marks, 11, is short for her age, doesn’t dance, can’t carry a tune like her brother Randy, and definitely doesn’t want to spend her summer acting in community theater. All of that changes when she and Randy are cast as Munchkins in The Wizard...
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Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer. Dial, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-55323-6
Peeking at her father’s emails, 12-year-old Californian Bett learns two pieces of upsetting information: her father has fallen in love with a man she’s never met, and the two of them are scheming to send Bett and the man’s 12-year-old daughter,...
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Holly Goldberg Sloan. Dial, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2994-5
Book and animal lover Sila Tekin finds hope, joy, and friendship when Veda, a traumatized circus elephant, enters her life. After an immigration issue arises for the sixth grader’s mother, her planned eight-day trip from Oregon to Turkey becomes an...
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Holly Goldberg Sloan. Flatiron, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-84730-0
Goldberg Sloan (I’ll Be There) captures the resilience of a widow seeking to provide stability for her children in this emotional contemporary romance. After Lindsey Hill’s husband, Paul, disappears—and presumably drowns—in a surfing accident,...
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Holly Goldberg Sloan. Rocky Pond, $17.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-593-53025-2
Two years and four months before the start of this quiet novel by Sloan (The Elephant in the Room), middle schooler Cordy’s life is irrevocably altered when her father, a commercial crab fisherman, drowns while working. Now unable to afford their...
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