Michael Northrop, Author Scholastic Press $16.99 (234p) ISBN 978-0-545-09749-9
Northrop's debut is one dark ride, as events spin out of control for three friends who haven't had many lucky breaks. High school sophomores Micheal (the narrator), Tommy, Mixer and Bones are a pretty tight crew. (And, yes, that's how
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Michael Northrop, Scholastic Press, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-545-21012-6
Northrop (Gentlemen) offers a gripping disaster story that, for its reliance on luck and coincidences to set things up, is no less exciting. Although Tattawa High School in rural New England closes early for snow, basketball player Scotty and fellow
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Michael Northrop. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-545-29714-1
Sixth-grader Jack Mogens thinks his big worry for the new baseball season is whether he’ll win the starting position in left field. Instead, his preoccupation
becomes the inside pitch, after he gets clouted in the head with one on opening day. Fear
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Michael Northrop. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-545-49587-5
Sixteen-year-old Jimmer Dobbs, known to his friends as JD, returns from a vague absence “upstate” to find that his mother has replaced him with a Rottweiler from a rescue shelter. JD christens the dog Johnny Rotten (after the Sex Pistols singer),...
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Michael Northrop. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-545-29716-5
In a chilling tale of horror on the high seas, set in the 1830s, a scientific mission to the Amazon jungle turns into a desperate struggle for survival after the crew brings something unexpected and terrifying on board. Following a brutal mutiny,...
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Michael Northrop. Scholastic Press, $12.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-545-72338-1
Northrop (Surrounded by Sharks) lays the groundwork for his five-book multiplatform TombQuest series, in which a 12-year-old boy and his know-it-all best friend fight immortal Egyptian menaces while readers participate via online games. Alex...
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