Jamie Gilson, Author Minstrel $2.75 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-63971-6
The energetic star of Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub and 4B Goes Wild returns, just in time to enter a pie-eating contest and bury a time capsule. Ages 8-12. (April)
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Jamie Gilson, Author HarperTrophy $4.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-688-15857-6
When a class project on the Oregon Trail forces two class misfits to ""marry"" and lead their classmates on an arduous journey, they glimpse their own potential. In PW's words, ""This buoyant story reaches its destination with all wheels intact.""...
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Jamie Gilson, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15 (191p) ISBN 978-0-688-14550-7
For a fifth-grade class project about the Oregon Trail, awkward Dinah with the size-11 feet has to ""marry"" the shortest, strangest boy in the class, Orin. Not only that, they have to pretend he's a doctor and she's his pregnant wife, riding a...
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Jamie Gilson, Author, Michael Garland, Illustrator HarperCollins $4.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-688-15488-2
A young hockey player enters a baking competition when his family's health food restaurant burns down. PW said it's ""all one could wish for as pure entertainment."" Ages 8-up. (Sept.)
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Jamie Gilson, Author, Diane de Groat, Illustrator Clarion Books $13.95 (52p) ISBN 978-0-395-59282-3
Richard, a spunky second grader, desperately wants his mother to buy him a yo-yo that looks like an eyeball. Everyone else has one, he argues, but his mother turns down his request and sends him off to school. There the boy discovers that a...
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Jamie Gilson, Author, John Wallner, Illustrator HarperCollins $4.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-688-16658-8
Presented with a big bill for accidentally damaging property, three boys pool their dubious musical talents in a nutty money-making scheme. Ages 8-up. (May)
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Jamie Gilson, Author, Elise Primavera, Illustrator, Elise Primavera, Photographer Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $16 (126p) ISBN 978-0-688-07969-7
Hobie Hanson, first seen in the popular Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub , and the hero of two subsequent novelsis back, having lost none of his high spirits. In fifth grade, a new program for talented and gifted childrenTAGcreates tension among...
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Jamie Gilson, Author, Dee deRosa, Illustrator HarperCollins $15 (177p) ISBN 978-0-688-12021-4
`` `I can't believe you did it,' my dad said.'' And, not surprisingly, the rapscallion Hobie is off and running smack dab into trouble--in this case, riding his bicycle through wet cement, for openers, in this seventh installment of the popular lad's
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Jamie Gilson, Author, Dee deRosa, Illustrator Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-10098-8
Readers who have chuckled over the antics of Hobie Hanson since his first appearance in Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub will hail his return. Here, the irrepressible Hobie is feuding with his friend, Nick, who--thanks to Hobie--has a red, swollen nose...
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Jamie Gilson, Author, Gilson, Author, Pat MacDonald, Editor Aladdin Paperbacks $2.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-671-79245-9
Could this second-grade youngster possibly have head lice? The answer lies in Gilson's typically comic and kid-pleasing novel. Ages 6-10. (Jan.)
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Jamie Gilson, Author, Anita Riggio, Illustrator Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $16 (149p) ISBN 978-0-688-08968-9
The popular hero of four of Gilson's previous novels, including Double Dog Dare , Hobie Hanson's latest adventures begin when the Hawk River floods. He tries to save the day, but is humiliated when Molly Bosco (and her inflatable floating giraffe)...
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