Lisa McMann, Author . Simon Pulse $15.99 (210p) ISBN 978-1-4169-5357-9
The trick to getting hooked on this highly satisfying first novel is to look past its disjointed opening. The initial chapters consist of flashbacks into which are woven a series of repetitive scenes wherein Janie Hannagan is unwillingly sucked into
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Lisa McMann, Simon Pulse, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4169-9481-7
In this ghost story, McCann (the Wake trilogy) delivers an atmospheric but unsatisfying tale of smalltown horror. Kendall Fletcher, a soccer player with obsessive-compulsive disorder who dreams of performing on Broadway, is determined to escape her...
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Lisa McMann. S&S/Aladdin, $16.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4424-0768-8
In her foray into middle-grade fiction, McMann (Cryer's Cross) delivers a fun mix of magic and science with a retro SF novel whose setting echoes classic artificial dystopias of the 1960s like Logan's Run and Make Room! Make Room! In the city of...
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Lisa McMann. Simon Pulse, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4424-0388-8
This intriguing but slight character study is built around the first-person account of a teenager returning to his family nine years after strangers lured him into the backseat of a car and drove away. It’s emotionally rich territory, but the setup...
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Lisa McMann. Simon Pulse, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4424-0391-8
A key role in running the family restaurant is a lot for any kid to handle;
simultaneously protecting a gay brother and a mentally ill father is more than enough complication. High school sophomore Jules Demarco has it even worse: she’s also in...
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Lisa McMann. Harper, $16.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-233714-6
In this trilogy opener, 13-year-old Charlotte “Charlie” Wilde’s life turns upside down when her mother takes a job in Navarro Junction, Ariz. As the new girl at school, Charlie faces many of the typical difficulties of starting fresh—finding friends,
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Lisa McMann, read by Julia Whelan. Simon & Schuster Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 5.5 hrs., $24.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-3788-1
Kendall Fletcher is a smalltown Montana high school senior with obsessive-compulsive disorder, waiting to hear if she's been accepted into Juilliard. At the same time, she's deeply concerned over the strange disappearance of two of her classmates....
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Lisa McMann, illus. by Antonio Caparo. Putnam, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-32337-3
Delicately balancing hope and despair, McMann (the Unwanteds Quests series) lovingly brings to life the tale of ship’s mouse Clarice and her runt-of-the-litter brother, Charles Sebastian. Life aboard a ship at sea is all that cunning, pragmatic...
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Lisa McMann. Putnam, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-32540-7
A decade and a half after their supernatural criminal parents stole a fortune, five children raised on a tropical island enter the mainstream world and contend with their parents’ complicated legacy. When her father—the only adult who hasn’t...
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