Patricia McCormick, Author . Scholastic/ Push $6.99 (, $6.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-439-32459-5
In a starred review, PW
wrote, "This first novel combines pathos with insight as it describes adolescent girls being hospitalized for a variety of psychiatric disorders. The book sympathetically and authentically renders the difficulties of...
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Patricia McCormick, Author . Hyperion $15.99 (187p) ISBN 978-0-7868-5173-7
The author of Cut
writes a second absorbing novel exploring the issue of an adolescent's self-destructive behavior. Thirteen-year-old Toby Malone, who narrates, watches in despair as his older brother, once a star athlete, travels down a path...
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Patricia McCormick, Author . Hyperion $15.99 (263p) ISBN 978-0-7868-5171-3
This hard-hitting novel told in spare free verse poems exposes the plight of a 13-year-old Nepali girl sold into sexual slavery. Through Lakshmi's innocent first-person narrative, McCormick (Cut
) reveals her gradual awakening to the harshness...
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Patricia McCormick, Author . HarperCollins/Balzer & Bray $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-173090-0
In this suspenseful psychological thriller, 18-year-old Matt Duffy, a private with memory problems following a traumatic brain injury, receives the Purple Heart in Iraq and gradually unravels the contradictory events that led to the honor. McCormick
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Patricia McCormick. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-173093-1
McCormick (Purple Heart) again tackles a horrifying subject with grace while unsentimentally portraying the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge and Cambodia’s killing fields. Not unlike Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water, this novel is based on a real...
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Patricia McCormick. Balzer + Bray, $18.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-241108-2
In short, chronological chapters, two-time National Book Award–finalist McCormick (Never Fall Down) recounts the life of theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, his efforts to alert the world to the horrors of Hitler’s Germany, and his conversion
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Patricia McCormick, Author, Patty McCormick, Author Boyds Mills Press $17.95 (168p) ISBN 978-1-886910-61-4
This first novel combines pathos with insight as it describes adolescent girls being hospitalized for a variety of psychiatric disorders: ""The place is called a residential treatment facility. It is not called a loony bin,"" states Callie, the...
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Patricia McCormick, Author, TBA, Read by, Clea Lewis, Read by , read by Clea Lewis. Listening Library $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-0483-2
In this adaptation of McCormick's debut novel, Lewis (TV's Ellen) imbues her reading with the cynicism and pain of the book's troubled 15-year-old protagonist, Callie. Callie faces some difficult emotional hurdles as a "guest" at
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Patricia McCormick, illus. by Iacopo Bruno. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-229259-9
Bruno’s stylized realism vividly brings to life the story of Sergeant Reckless, the only animal to officially hold military rank in the United States. Starving and abandoned during the Korean War, the former racehorse was discovered by U.S. Marines...
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Patricia McCormick and Mevan Babakar, illus. by Yas Imamura. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-0630-5699-2
Collaborating with McCormick (Sergeant Reckless), Kurdistan-born debut author Babakar tells a story based on her own experience as a child refugee. During young Mevan’s early life, “figs fell from the trees and the air smelled like honeysuckle” in...
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