Louann Gaeddert, Author Henry Holt & Company $13.95 (71p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0839-5
The summer was to have been as sweet and smooth as a milkshake, but when Bruce Hardy arrives in California to visit his grandfather, he discovers that he has to adjust his expectations. ``Gramps,'' who recently lost his wife, is still grieving and...
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Louann Gaeddert, Author St. Martin's Press $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-92119-4
A contrived premise, smarmy villains and the heroine's budding independence leave little time for her to become acquainted with the hero in this busy tale by the author of Perfect Strangers . When Emily Stanoszek inherits a Berkshires house and farm
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Louann Gaeddert, Author Atheneum Books $16 (144p) ISBN 978-0-689-31883-2
It is 1800 and Richard Baldwin's mother has just died. The 11-year-old has to move away from his home in Bennington, Vt., to live with his Uncle Lyman in rural New York State. Uncle Lyman (Uncle Ugly, to Richard), with his son Dan, has an incredible
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Louann Gaeddert, Author, Jean Karl, Editor Atheneum Books $14 (160p) ISBN 978-0-689-80128-0
This historical novel about a Shaker community in the mid-19th century is strong on ambience but short on plot and character development. Hope's mother has died and it's been more than a year since anyone has heard from her father, prospecting for...
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