James F. Calvert, Author, Patricia Calvert, Author, Edward L. Beach, Jr., Foreword by John Wiley & Sons $35 (304p) ISBN 978-0-471-12778-9
In nine war patrols, the USS Jack sank 15 Japanese ships and ranked ninth in tonnage sunk by the end of the war. The author of this exciting memoir served as Torpedo Data Computer operator aboard the Jack (he was the one who aimed the torpedoes) and
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Patricia Calvert, Author, Patricia Calvert, Author Atheneum Books $13.95 (153p) ISBN 978-0-684-19105-8
Although Cat Kincaid describes herself as ``dark and dangerous as a leopard,'' her vulnerability is not hard to detect at the onset of this problem novel. Underneath a tough exterior is a 15-year-old runaway who desires love and security. Even...
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Patricia Calvert, Author Scribner Book Company $16 (137p) ISBN 978-0-684-19685-5
Calvert's ( The Snowbird ; Yesterday's Daughter ) sweeping, deeply moving historical novel may well bring tears to the reader's eyes. The Civil War has ended, yet 12-year-old Tyler still awaits tidings of his father, Black Jack Bohannon, who left...
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Patricia Calvert, Author Avon Books $2.75 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-70470-5
The many kinds of loveplatonic, romantic, maternalare explored in Calvert's compelling novel about a girl who learns to accept herself and those around her. Ages 12-up. (February)
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Patricia Calvert, Author Scribner Book Company $12.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-684-18896-6
""Buddies'' is the classification Hughie gives to his friendship with Zee, a tomboy who seems to have blossomed into a young woman overnight. When Hughie finally asks her for a date, he doesn't realize that she is five months pregnant. The father of
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Patricia Calvert, Author Avon Books $2.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-70600-6
When Hughie learns that his best friend Zee is pregnant, he tries to help her, and ends up learning where he fits in with friends and family. Ages 12-up. (Oct.)
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Patricia Calvert, Author Avon Books $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71186-4
A troubled teenager meets her match when she is placed with an unconventional foster mother; PW said that Calvert's story is ``both touching and enlightening.'' Ages 12-up. (Dec.)
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Patricia Calvert, Author Atheneum Books $15 (176p) ISBN 978-0-684-19558-2
We enter Megan's life eight months after a motorcycle accident has left her paralyzed from the waist down. She and her family have had time to recover from the shock and grief--but now what? Adjusting to the physical limitations of a wheelchair is...
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Patricia Calvert, Author Atheneum Books $16 (160p) ISBN 978-0-689-80641-4
Twelve-year-old Glennis compares her family to Humpty Dumpty ""broken into a kazillion million pieces."" After her father is jailed for committing a white-collar crime and her mother suffers a nervous breakdown, Glennis's brother and three sisters...
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Patricia Calvert, Author Simon Pulse $4.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-689-82451-7
In a starred review, PW called this novel about a girl left paralyzed by a motorcycle accident and her journey to independence ""exceptionally powerful."" Ages 10-up. (Jan.)...
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Patricia Calvert, Author, Lisa Desimini, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16 (160p) ISBN 978-0-689-82102-8
Calvert's (Glennis, Before and After) story narrated by an intelligent, funny sixth-grader, who first rejects then accepts her older sister's boyfriend, starts out strong then loses steam. Sarah Connelly thinks that her summer is ruined when her...
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