Iain Lawrence, Author . Random/ Laurel-Leaf $5.99 (321p) ISBN 978-0-440-23810-2
This story, told through the eyes of a 16-year-old who lies about his age to enlist, presents "a gritty, unglorified picture of what it was like to be a fighter pilot during WWII," according to PW
's starred review. Ages 12-up. (Jan.)
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Iain Lawrence. Delacorte, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-73378-6
The only thing Chris and Frank have in common is that they both know Jack, Chris’s daredevil uncle, who wants to take the boys on an adventure a year after Chris’s father dies. But Uncle Jack’s plan to sail from Alaska to Canada turns treacherous...
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Iain Lawrence, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-32739-8
Lawrence seamlessly shifts from the open sea (The Wreckers; The Smugglers) to landlubber territory with this tale of an albino boy who runs off to join the circus. Although the novel's premise may be familiar, there is nothing conventional about the
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Iain Lawrence, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-32663-6
In the wake of Lawrence's The Wreckers comes this companion novel, a second riveting high-sea adventure featuring swashbuckling characters, salty dialogue and a taut succession of cliffhangers. The author successfully conjures an aura of mystery and
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Iain Lawrence, Author Delacorte Press $15.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-32535-6
First-time novelist Lawrence gives a nod to Robert Louis Stevenson in a fast-paced, atmospheric yarn that will have adventure buffs glued to their seats. Author of two adult books on sailing, Lawrence paints a minutely observed picture of maritime...
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Iain Lawrence, Author Yearling Books $6.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-440-41545-9
""With this minutely observed picture of maritime life in 1799 Cornwall, Lawrence gives a nod to Robert Louis Stevenson. A fast-paced, atmospheric yarn that will have adventure buffs glued to their seats,"" said PW in a starred review. Ages 10-up. (N
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Iain Lawrence, Author . Delacorte $16.99 (292p) ISBN 978-0-385-73376-2
This memorable novel, a skillful combination of real life and fantasy, is by turns uplifting and saddening. Set in 1955 against the backdrop of the polio epidemic in the period just before Jonas Salk's vaccine, the story follows three “pol
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Iain Lawrence, Author . Delacorte $15.99 (262p) ISBN 978-0-385-73375-5
Mystery lovers will get a kick out of this rollicking whodunit featuring swashbuckling soothsayers, outlandish séances, magic tricks and more. Set in the Roaring 20s, the fact-based narrative follows Scooter King, a sharp-witted 13-year-old...
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Iain Lawrence, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-385-73089-1
Lawrence (Ghost Boy
) creates a poignant family drama that will pull the heartstrings of anyone who has looked up to an older sibling or has fallen in love with a dog. The story opens in the summer of 1964 in rural Hog's Hollow and focuses on...
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Iain Lawrence, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-32736-7
Packed with as much excitement and adventure as its predecessors (The Wreckers
and The Smugglers), Lawrence's conclusion to the High Seas trilogy opens as John Spencer, now 17 and a seasoned sailor, takes his shift steering the Dragon
(purchased
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Iain Lawrence, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-385-73088-4
Beginning where Lawrence's The Convicts
left off, this dark sequel continues the saga of Tom Tin, a 19th-century British lad, who was mistaken for his criminal twin and unjustly imprisoned. As the novel opens he is still on the convict ship (cap
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Iain Lawrence, Author . Delacorte $17.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-90109-3
One of the darkest yet most engrossing of Lawrence's (the High Seas Trilogy) adventure novels, this tale set in 19th-century England and inspired by actual events sheds light on the sordid conditions of a prison ship for boys convicted of crimes.
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Iain Lawrence, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-73086-0
After his trilogy of sea adventures (The Wreckers
; The Smugglers
; The Buccaneers
), Lawrence turns to the skies to bring readers a gritty, unglorified picture of what it was like to be a fighter pilot during WWII. As the war rages in Europe, "K
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Iain Lawrence, Author . Dell/Laurel-Leaf $5.99 (212p) ISBN 978-0-440-41812-2
A boy watches his kindly toymaker father turn against the German shopkeepers and neighbors in the family's London community, then travel to France to fight in the Great War in what PW
called, in a starred review, "a thoughtful and thought-
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Iain Lawrence, Author . Dell/Yearling $5.50 (244p) ISBN 978-0-440-41671-5
PW
wrote in a starred review, "Packed with as much excitement as its predecessors (The Wreckers
and The Smugglers), this High Seas tale offers plenty of full-blooded salty characters, cunning dialogue, surprises around every corner and a...
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Iain Lawrence, Author . Delacorte $16.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-72925-3
Lawrence (the High Seas Trilogy) returns to the ocean for this exquisite novel that conjures literally the nature and mood of an island haunted by tragedy. When 17-year-old Elizabeth McCrae—better known as Squid—returns to her...
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Iain Lawrence, Author . Dell/Laurel-Leaf $5.50 (352p) ISBN 978-0-440-41668-5
An albino boy runs off to find comfort among the members of a circus troupe in post-WWII America. In a starred review, PW
wrote, "This poignant adventure invites readers to look beyond others' outer appearances and into their souls."...
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Iain Lawrence, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-72924-6
War—idealistic, brutal, awe inspiring, numbing, jingoistic and ultimately heartbreaking—is the central theme of this thoughtful and thought-provoking novel. The Great War has begun, and Johnny watches his kindly toymaker father turn...
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Iain Lawrence. Holiday House/Ferguson, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4655-1
A family perpetually flees from a man with a lizard tattoo in this intriguing middle grade mystery. Six years prior to this book’s start, Igor Watson’s father “saw someone do a terrible thing”; ever since, the family has been on the run, changing...
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Iain Lawrence. Holiday House/Ferguson, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4654-4
When 11-year-old Virgil Pepper and his siblings, 19-year-old Joshua and 15-year-old Kaitlyn, head to spread their mother’s ashes at her favorite forest haunt, Little Lost Lake, the engine on their camper van unexpectedly blows. Their artistic father
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