Phyllis Shalant, Author . Dutton $15.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-525-46920-9
This tender novel explores how clashing values, religions and cultures affect a Jewish girl growing up in Brooklyn in 1960. Lee Bloom's sixth-grade year is one of discovery. As she learns at school about segregation in the South, she begins...
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Phyllis Shalant, Author Dutton Books $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-525-45695-7
With her sister back from college with a new boyfriend and her mom and dad separated, a disheartened Lucy thinks has only two supports she can count on-her friend Calvin and her computer, which she calls The Great Eye and which she uses to compose...
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Phyllis Shalant, Author Dutton Books $15 (160p) ISBN 978-0-525-44868-6
Eighth grader Andi Applebaum has just been pigeonholed as a brain by her preppy new classmates at the Barth Academy (``They were all tall,'' Andi says, ``with the kind of skin that made me vow to drink more milk''). But she is spared the fate of the
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Phyllis Shalant, Author, Charles Robinson, Author, Charles Robinson, Illustrator Puffin Books $3.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-14-034596-4
``Shalant displays an ear nicely tuned to the trials and tribulations of fifth graders,'' said PW about this antic tale of Mandy Simon's adventurous school year. Ages 8-12. (Feb.)
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Phyllis Shalant, Author, Charles Robinson, Illustrator Dutton Books $13.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-525-44527-2
In a series of loosely connected vignettes, Mandy Simon describes her fifth grade year. Mandy thinks school is great, especially Mr. Popper, her offbeat teacher who encourages Mandy's class to be creative. The only bad thing about school is Jonathan
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