Kimberly Willis Holt, Author Yearling $6.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-440-22904-9
When ""the fattest boy in the world"" rolls into Antler, Tex., in a trailer, 13-year-old Toby's perspective can't help but change. In a starred review of this National Book Award winner, PW praised the ""well-developed characters, all fantastic and...
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Kimberly Willis Holt. Holt/Ottaviano, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8022-3
When Tate Ellerbee’s teacher tells her class to think about who they might choose for a pen pal assignment, the 11-year-old immediately knows who she will write to: Hank Williams, an up-and-coming country singer she and her guardians, Aunt Patty...
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Kimberly Willis Holt, Author Henry Holt & Company $17.99 (227p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6116-1
Holt (My Louisiana Sky) sets her heartwarming and carefully crafted novel during 1971, but her message of tolerance is one that contemporary readers will appreciate. The moment Zachary Beaver, ""the fattest boy in the world,"" rolls into Antler, Tex.
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Kimberly Willis Holt, Author Yearling Books $6.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-440-41570-1
In this ""unusually auspicious debut,"" a girl living in a small Louisiana town in 1957 must choose whether to care for her mentally slow parents or to move in with a glamorous aunt in Baton Rouge. ""The author presents and handles a sticky dilemma...
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Kimberly Willis Holt, Author Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5251-0
Making an unusually auspicious debut, Holt offers a unique coming-of-age tale. The year is 1957 and the place is Saitter, La., a small town where prejudices reach far beyond skin color. Twelve-year-old Tiger Parker, exceptionally bright and also...
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Kimberly Willis Holt, Author Holt/Ottaviano 16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8020-9
Holt (When Zachary Beaver Came to Town) serves up an absorbing, atmospheric epic of intertwined lives on America’s western frontier. Dowser Jake Kincaid discards his gift—the ability to find water—to become a trapper in 1833. Returning home one year
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Kimberly Willis Holt, Author . Puffin $5.99 (167p) ISBN 978-0-698-11970-3
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Constructed like a series of vignettes, this novel focuses on the relationship between a child and her widower grandfather, whom the family suspects is losing his grip on reality. In PW's words, the novel "captures a child's sense...
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Kimberly Willis Holt, Author . Holt $16.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6360-8
Holt's (My Louisiana Sky
) atmospheric novel traces five generations of a Louisiana family. Spanning the years 1939–2004, the book encapsulates the struggles, sorrows, infatuations and triumphs of various family members as they enter...
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Kimberly Willis Holt, Author . Dell/Laurel-Leaf $6.50 (308p) ISBN 978-0-553-49441-9
"This evocative novel set in Guam traces the months following the suicide of native girl Isabel's mother," wrote PW
in a starred review. "The author works magic, recreating the sights, sounds and smells of Guam and encapsulating...
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Kimberly Willis Holt, Author . Holt $16.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6361-5
Holt's (My Louisiana Sky; When Zachery Came to Town)
evocative novel set in Guam traces the difficult months following the suicide of native girl Isabel's mother. Brief (half- to three-page) chapters capture the heroine's moods and...
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Kimberly Willis Holt, Author, Emily Janie Card, Read by , read by Emily Janice Card. Listening Library $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-5958-7
Nine-year-old Piper Reed is used to her family moving to a new place every two years because of her father's job as a mechanic for the Navy. “When a man joins the Navy, his family joins the Navy,” he always explains. But the most...
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Kimberly Willis Holt, Author, Kate Reading, Read by , read by Kate Reading. Listening Library $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3670-0
A love of words—books, reading and writing—is the theme that runs through Holt's series of vignettes, which illuminates four generations of a Louisiana family. Teenage Rose, an aspiring writer, kicks things off: forced to flee the...
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Kimberly Willis Holt, Author, Christine Davenier, Illustrator , illus. by Christine Davenier. Holt $14.95 (146p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8197-8
Crisp writing from a National Book Award winner, and a Navy-family backdrop, raise this otherwise formulaic chapter-book series opener several notches above average. Piper, an independent-minded fourth grader and the narrator here, is hardly...
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Kimberly Willis Holt, illus. by Kyrsten Brooker. Holt/Ottaviano, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8088-9
When Bernard Worrywart is invited to the Highbrow residence for dinner, his mother coaches him on how to behave: “Don’t forget, no elbows on the table. Don’t talk with food in your mouth. And for goodness’ sakes, don’t sing,” she says. However, at...
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Kimberly Willis Holt, Author, Leonard Jenkins, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $13.99 (74p) ISBN 978-0-399-23215-2
Holt (My Louisiana Sky) returns to Louisiana for this touching slice of life in a 1940 mill town. Young Jolene Jasmine Johnson can't change certain things about her world, like having to sit in the rear balcony at the movie theater, and acting...
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Kimberly Willis Holt, Author, Gabi Swiatkowska, Illustrator , illus. by Gabi Swiatkowska. Holt $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7388-1
Holt's (When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
) affectionate story of awaiting a new baby touches on the many myths associated with this joyous event. When young Iris hears that Aunt Athena is expecting a baby boy, to be called Gregory, she eagerly...
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Kimberly Willis Holt, Author, Judith Ivey, Read by Listening Library $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-52598-4
In this poignant adaptation of Holt's debut novel, actress Ivey's natural Southern twang goes down as smooth as ""Momma's extra-sweet lemondade."" Twelve-year-old Tiger Ann Parker finds herself going through some momentous changes in the summer...
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Kimberly Willis Holt, Author, Donald Saaf, Illustrator , illus. by Donald Saaf. Holt $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7587-8
Despite its appealing cover and pedigree, this story about a skinny brown dog who finds a home contains stiff paintings that effectively distance the reader from an otherwise gentle narrative. Saaf’s (Hello, Hello
) mixed-media paintings are...
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Kimberly Willis Holt. Holt/Ottaviano, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-62779-326-1
In this quiet tale of community and new friendship by Holt (Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel), nine-year-old Daniel and his mother move across the county to While-a-Way Lane following his parents’ divorce. Offbeat residents populate their new...
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Kimberly Willis Holt. Holt/Ottaviano, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-23410-0
Following rising seventh grader Rylee, this post–9/11 companion to 1999’s When Zachary Beaver Came to Town revisits familiar characters—including Rylee’s father, Toby, that novel’s protagonist—to poignantly capture a narrative centering both true...
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Kimberly Willis Holt. Little, Brown/Ottaviano, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-32609-4
Interpersonal conflicts threaten the friendship of three New Orleans seventh graders in this slice-of-life novel by Holt (The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas). Because she went for a run instead of minding her younger sister, Greer believes that the...
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