Brian Dennis, Author, Kirby Larson, Author, Mary Nethery, Author . Little, Brown $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-316-05318-1
Larson and Nethery, who collaborated on Two Bobbies
, team up with Dennis to tell the moving story of the Marine major’s friendship with a wild dog he befriended at a border fort in Iraq. Dennis named the dog Nubs because his “ears had...
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Kirby Larson. Delacorte, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-73746-3
Hattie Inez Brooks, the determined 17-year-old heroine of Larson's Newbery Honor–winning Hattie Big Sky, returns in this follow-up set in 1919. Her homestead claim having failed, Hattie soldiers through her menial job in a boardinghouse until a...
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Kirby Larson. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-545-41637-5
Life on the WWII home front is real and wrenching in this triumphant novel by Newbery Honor author Larson. Fifth-grader Hobie’s losses are deep: his father is off flying B-24s in Europe, his best friend has left their Seattle hometown, and—after...
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Kirby Larson. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-545-84056-9
It’s 1910, and Audacity Jones is living in a struggling home for “wayward girls” in Swayzee, Ind., when a frequent donor, Commodore Crutchfield, arrives asking for a volunteer for a secret mission. Sharp-witted and well-read, Audie has her doubts...
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Kirby Larson, read by Kirsten Potter. Listening Library, unabridged, five CDs, 5.75 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-0-449-01524-7
This sequel to Hattie Big Sky, set in the early 20th century, sees young Hattie taking a chance and traveling to San Francisco to follow her dream of becoming a newspaper reporter. In doing so, she struggles both with her heart—because it means...
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Kirby Larson. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-545-41635-1
As she did in Duke (2013), Larson centers this trenchant novel on a child dealing with hardships on the home front during WWII, including separation from a beloved dog. Inspired by real-life wartime events, the novel vividly communicates the...
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Kirby Larson, read by Lyssa Browne. Scholastic Audio, , unabridged, 6 CDs, 6.5 hrs., $45.99 ISBN SBN 978-0-545-91097-2
It’s 1910, and Audacity “Audie” Jones is living in a home for “wayward girls” in Swayzee, Ind., when a frequent donor, Commodore Crutchfield, arrives asking for a volunteer for a secret mission. Sharp-witted and well-read, Audie has her doubts about
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Kirby Larson, Author, Rosanne Litzinger, Illustrator Holiday House $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1473-4
Youngsters will likely be hard pressed not to laugh at the way a kerchief works its magic on tart-tongued Griselda. The crotchety old woman has alienated herself from her fellow villagers, but occasionally feels ""the weight of her loneliness."" One
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Kirby Larson, illus. by Shinji Fujioka. Candlewick, $15.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1942-5
An improbable friendship develops over summer vacation in this understated slice-of-life story from Larson (the Audacity Jones books). The beginnings of Shermy’s school break are unassuming, involving bickering with his older sister, fielding gentle
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Kirby Larson and Quinn Wyatt. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-338-89313-7
Eighth grader Tess Medina is wrestling with the death of her father three years prior. She throws herself into baking, hoping it will keep her close to him, since he taught her everything she knows. Maybe it will even score her some friends. When...
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