Maureen Johnson, Author . Penguin/Razorbill $16.99 (263p) ISBN 978-1-59514-060-9
Johnson's (13 Little Blue Envelopes
) offbeat book mixes humor and drama, with uneven results. When her best friend, Allison, trades her soul for beauty and confidence, brilliant, feisty Jane must confront the demon to get it back. Jane even...
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Maureen Johnson, Author . Penguin/Razorbill $16.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-59514-019-7
Johnson (The Key to the Golden Firebird
) offers a saga of three best friends in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: impetuous, wry Avery, shy, sweet Mel and bright, assertive Nina (whose last name gives the novel its title). During the summer before their...
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Maureen Johnson, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-054141-5
Self-effacing Ginny, 17, heads off to Europe with a giant purple-and-green backpack and an intriguing itinerary: she must follow the instructions set forth in a series of 13 sealed envelopes provided to her by her recently deceased Aunt Peg, an...
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Maureen Johnson, Author . HarperTrophy $7.99 (297p) ISBN 978-0-06-054140-8
Three sisters named for baseball players by their beloved father begin to unravel after his death. Each responds in a different but credible way, and begins to heal. Ages 12-up. (July)
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Maureen Johnson, Author . Penguin/Razorbill $7.99 (370p) ISBN 978-1-59514-033-3
In this saga of three best girlfriends in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Nina returns from a summer program at Stanford to discover her friends Avery and Mel kissing in a store dressing room. "The novel becomes more credible as it unfolds," wrote...
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Maureen Johnson, Author . HarperTeen $16.99 (323p) ISBN 978-0-06-054144-6
When Clio was a kid, she invented a popular adventure board game with her father, which allowed them to live an adventurous life that included trips to Peru, Greece and Japan. But after the money disappeared and Clio had a scuba diving accident (her
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Maureen Johnson, Author . Scholastic/Point $16.99 (353p) ISBN 978-0-439-89927-7
Johnson (13 Little Blue Envelopes
) packs her latest with all the elements of a winning novel—a dramatic setting, offbeat characters, witty dialogue—but she leaves out the tension. Scarlett's family operates and lives in a rundown...
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Maureen Johnson. HarperTeen, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-197679-7
In 13 Little Envelopes (2006), 17-year-old Ginny was sent on an all-expenses-paid scavenger hunt of sorts through Europe, via a series of envelopes from her late aunt. Johnson efficiently recaps the events of that book in a prologue (Ginny plans to...
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Maureen Johnson. Putnam, $16.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-25660-8
Johnson's trademark sense of humor serves to counterbalance some grisly murders in this page-turner, which opens her Shades of London series. Rory Deveaux trades the sultry heat of Louisiana for the academic rigors of a London boarding school, only...
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Maureen Johnson. Putnam, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-25661-5
American-born Rory Deveaux—London schoolgirl by day, hunter of serial-killer ghosts by night—is back in the second installment in Johnson’s Shades of London series. Rory is still recovering from being stabbed by the Ripper ghost at the end of The...
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Maureen Johnson, read by Nicola Barber. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $24.99 ISBN 978-1-4418-6636-3
In Johnson’s supernatural thriller, Rory Deveaux, a teenager from smalltown Louisiana, arrives at a London boarding school just in time for a resurgence of Jack the Ripper–style serial killings. Soon, Rory finds herself the target of a mysterious...
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Edited by Maureen Johnson. Wednesday Books, $18.99 paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-16836-8
Candor and passion radiate from the 30 voices raised in this trenchant and timely compendium of interviews, essays, reflections, illustrations, and poems. Representing a range of ethnicities, sexual orientations, professional achievements, and—most...
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Maureen Johnson. HarperCollins/Tegen, $17.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-233805-1
Johnson kicks off a riveting mystery series set at the Ellingham Academy, a prestigious school built on a Vermont mountain by industrialist tycoon Albert Ellingham. His goal was to make learning a game—and free—for the exceptional students accepted...
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Maureen Johnson. HarperCollins/Tegen, $18.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-0630-3260-6
Sardonic sleuth Stevie Bell returns in this engaging stand-alone sleepaway camp thriller, a follow-up to Johnson’s Truly Devious trilogy. Working at a grocery store deli after solving the famous Ellingham Academy case, Stevie quickly agrees to go...
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Maureen Johnson. HarperCollins/Tegen, $19.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-303265-1
Set in the Truly Devious universe, this scintillating mystery by Johnson (The Box in the Woods) follows Ellingham Academy senior and renowned amateur sleuth Stevie Bell, who feels rudderless with no college plans or cases to solve. She misses her...
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Maureen Johnson. HarperTeen, $19.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-325595-1
Johnson (Nine Liars) departs from her Truly Devious universe with a standalone dual-timeline mystery helmed by a quirky and endearing teen. In New York’s Thousand Islands archipelago, Morning House—the once “idyllic,” now infamous site of two...
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