Margaret Willey, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05850-5
From the very beginning, readers may sense that there is something too fragile and intense about Jesse Davis's relationship with her new boyfriend, Lenny. Since they began dating, Jesse has distanced herself from her parents and classmates and,...
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Margaret Willey, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09215-8
Shuttling back and forth between her divorced parents all her life has left 15-year-old Melinda in an emotional no-man's-land, lacking a sense of identity. For the first time, she spends a summer away from both of them at her cousin's, and by taking
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Margaret Willey, Author Laurel Leaf Library $3.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-22680-2
Still distraught after her mother's death, Lisa finds a new life singing for her brother's band, but he's less happy with the arrangement. ""Willey's protagonists seem to acquire a life off the page,"" PW observed. Ages 12-up. (June)
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Margaret Willey, Author HarperCollins Publishers $11.95 (154p) ISBN 978-0-06-026494-9
Bonnie has always envied her best friend Jenny's older sister, Linda, who ran away with the boy she loved, and married him. Linda is estranged from her family, even when she returns to town with a baby and her husband, and sets up a small household.
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Margaret Willey, Author HarperCollins Publishers $11.5 (150p) ISBN 978-0-06-026483-3
Thirteen year-old Arly has withdrawn from her peers and her mother, with whom she was once close, in favor of solitary walks and ""days without ever really speaking to anyone.'' She meets the flamboyant newcomer Regina, a well-developed contrast to...
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Margaret Willey, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-32104-4
Equally somber but not as disturbing as Willey's Saving Lenny, this intimate story traces the coming of age of a brother and sister mourning their mother's death. Ever since the tragic car accident months earlier, the members of the Franklin family...
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Margaret Willey. Carolrhoda Lab, $17.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7613-8535-6
There’s very little that’s expected about Willey’s (A Summer of Silk Moths) novel about secrets and the power in both keeping and releasing them. For starters, the three teenagers at its center are middle school, not high school students. And while...
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Margaret Willey. Carolrhoda Lab, $17.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4677-2639-9
Willey (Four Secrets) returns with a riveting story about being robbed of one’s childhood. When Charlie Porter is seven years old, his mother abandons him, his father, and his younger brother, Liam. To comfort his father, Charlie recites his mother’s
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Margaret Willey, Author, Heather M. Solomon, Illustrator , illus. by Heather Solomon. S&S/Atheneum $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-83254-3
First-time illustrator Solomon makes an impressive debut in this winning tale of a spunky girl who matches her wits against a giant's brawn to save her family from destitution. Combining detailed watercolor and collage, the artist works patches...
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Margaret Willey, Author, Heather M. Solomon, Illustrator , illus. by Heather M. Solomon. S&S/Aladdin $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-87068-2
"A winning tale of a spunky girl who matches her wits against a giant's brawn to save her family from destitution," wrote PW
in a starred review. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Margaret Willey, Author, Heather M. Solomon, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-689-85339-5
Someone has been running the heroine's pony ragged at night in Clever Beatrice and the Best Little Pony by Margaret Willey, illus. by Heather Solomon. So she consults Monsieur Le Pain (his shingle reads ""Fresh Bread & All Things Not Easily...
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Margaret Wiley, Author, Margaret Willey, Author Laurel Leaf Library $3.5 (144p) ISBN 978-0-440-21902-6
A 15-year-old girl is torn between divorced parents in what PW called a ``generous exploration'' of the ``emotional grip'' of divorce on children. Ages 12-up. (May)
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