Kristine L. Franklin, Author, Joseph Fiedler, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $4.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0241-3
The summer after sixth grade holds promise for Trina as she anticipates junior high and the new arrival of a baby sister or brother, but then her father sinks into a debilitating depression. Ages 11-15. (Aug.)
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Kristine L. Franklin, Author, John Ward, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-56402-674-3
Wiggie Carter is a nerd, and he wants to be cool. This shopworn premise is smothered right off the bat by a pile of equally tired stereotypes. Among them: Wiggie wears thick glasses. His mother is a scientist with her own educational TV show. He has
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Kristine L. Franklin, Author, Paul Lee, Illustrator . Candlewick $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1325-9
The intelligent, often humorous voice of 12-year-old Cuss, a first-generation Croatian-American nicknamed for his ability to curse in the myriad languages spoken in his small Washington State mining town, propels this historical novel set in 1925....
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Kristine L. Franklin, Author, Chronicle Books, Author, Barbara Lavallee, Illustrator Chronicle Books $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8118-0447-9
Right from the cover image, fans of Mama, Do You Love Me? will recognize Lavallee's enchanting watercolors of the frozen North. Franklin's (The Old, Old Man and the Very Little Boy) resonant tale of an unusual fishing expedition opens with a lyrical
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Kristine L. Franklin, Author, Jill Kastner, Illustrator, Alma Flor Ada, Translator Atheneum Books $16.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-689-31809-2
A simple prose poem describes how a Navajo boy cares for the family's sheep, taking them daily to a secret spring and then home again, keeping them safe from Coyote. When Ben discovers one evening that a lamb is missing, he goes back to find her...
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Kristine L. Franklin, Author, Terea Shaffer, Illustrator Atheneum Books $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-689-31735-4
In this promising debut for author and artist, an African boy loves to listen to the village elder's stories, but cannot comprehend his talk of the very little boy who still lives within the old man. When enough seasons pass, however, the boy, long...
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