Michael Simmons, Author . Roaring Brook/Porter $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7613-1885-9
A compelling narrator will keep readers riveted to Simmons's first novel, about a former rich kid who must adjust to life literally "on the wrong side of the tracks" after his stockbroker father is arrested for insider trading. Brett...
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Michael Simmons, Author . Peter Owen $29.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-7206-1224-0
Hearing loss, according to Simmons, is the most common sensory disability, and this memoir-cum-manual about adult-onset hearing loss should be read by anyone with the condition and those who know them. A retired British journalist who began going...
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Michael Simmons, Author . Delacorte $7.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-73196-6
In a starred review, PW
wrote, "A compelling narrator will keep readers riveted to this first novel, about a former rich kid who must adjust to life literally 'on the wrong side of the tracks' after his father is arrested for insider...
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Michael Simmons, Author . Roaring Brook/Porter $16.95 (173p) ISBN 978-1-59643-070-9
Nice 16-year-old Will, the likable narrator of Simmons's (Pool Boy
) novel, is the middle child in a well-off family living in the Chicago suburbs that really only has one problem: his 17-year-old brother, Jason, has always been a troublemaker,...
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Michael Simmons, Author, George O'Connor, Illustrator , illus. by George O'Connor. Roaring Brook/Porter $15.95 (231p) ISBN 978-1-59643-281-9
The aliens that have landed in the town of Willoughby are mean and ugly—and they eat people (everything except their feet)—in this opening volume in Simmons's (Vandal
) Chronicles of the First Invasion series. Twelve-year-old...
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Michael Simmons, Author, Chad Lowe, Read by , read by Chad Lowe. Listening Library $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-2322-2
Lowe effectively tackles teendom, skillfully giving voice to 15-year-old Brett Gerson, star of the riches-to-rags tale that comprises Simmons' crisply formed debut novel. Listeners quickly discover that Brett is bitter and angry—which he...
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