Mal Peet, Author . Candlewick $17.99 (424p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3488-9
Peet's (Keeper
) novel employs separate narrative threads to track the grief of a teen puzzling out her grandfather's suicide, and the same man's youth in Holland during WWII, where he and another Dutchman worked with the British to...
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Mal Peet, Author . Candlewick $18.99 (429p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3941-9
Peet's third novel featuring crusty sports reporter Paul Faustino updates Othello in a fictional South American setting. Superstar soccer player Otello is traded to a new club, a move engineered by his greedy agent, Diego, and a sleazy...
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Mal Peet. Candlewick, $17.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5227-2
Peet’s ambitious novel attempts to tie the story of two British teenagers’ ill-fated romance to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. At age 16, Clem Ackroyd, the intelligent son of working-class parents, falls hard for Frankie, the rich daughter of Clem’s
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Mal Peet. Candlewick, $18.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7636-8184-5
Philip Murdstone has written five quiet books in the “Sensitive Dippy Boy genre,” which his agent—the curvaceous, ferocious Minerva Cinch—insists he must abandon if he (or, more importantly, she) is ever to make any money. “You may be perfectly...
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Mal Peet, with Meg Rosoff. Candlewick, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7842-5
A gritty and inspiring survival story, Peet’s final novel, completed by Rosoff after his death, has the stoic quality and soul of a Steinbeck tale. Set in the 1920s and early ’30s, it traces the saga of Beck, a British youth born out of a tryst...
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Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham, illus. by Patrick Benson. Candlewick, $15.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6144-1
Peet and Graham, who most recently collaborated on Mysterious Traveler, add to their library of tales about children from other times and places with this story about Yazul, a boy who lives along the Silk Road. Yazul’s father is lord of a han, of...
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Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham, illus. by P.J. Lynch. Candlewick, $15.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6232-5
A group of travelers who approach the famous guide Issa for help traversing the dangerous Bitter Mountains snort with derision when they learn he is blind: “A blind guide? Is this some sort of joke? Some sort of trick?” Lynch’s painting shows the...
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Mal Peet, Author, Elspeth Graham, Author, Juan Wijngaard, Illustrator , illus. by Juan Wijngaard Candlewick $15.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4453-6
A story inspired by Chinese legends comes to luminous life in the hands of Carnegie Medal–winner Peet (Tamar
); his wife, Graham; and Greenaway Medalist Wijngaard (Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady
). The authors’ richly descriptive tone...
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