Books by S. A. Bodeen and Complete Book Reviews
Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, Author, S. A. Bodeen, Author, Aaron Boyd, Illustrator , illus. by Aaron Boyd. Lee & Low $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58430-058-8
Set in Tanzania, Stuve-Bodeen's (Elizabeti's Doll) predictable but touching story focuses on a boy who lives with his grandfather, a mute toymaker ("Illness had taken his voice a long time ago"). Bernardi sells Babu's toys at...
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Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, Author, S. A. Bodeen, Author, Christy Hale, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-880000-70-0
In an impressive debut, Stuve-Bodeen warms the heart and hearth with this sweetly evoked tale inspired by her experiences in the Peace Corps. Set in a Tanzanian village, the story tells of Elizabeti, who watches her mother care for her new baby...
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S. A. Bodeen, Author . Feiwel & Friends $16.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-312-37015-2
Bodeen, acclaimed as the writer of such picture books as Elizabeti's Doll,
turns out a high-wire act of a first novel, a thriller that exerts an ever-tighter grip on readers. Eli, the 15-year-old son of a billionaire techno-preneur, has spent...
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S.A. Bodeen, Feiwel and Friends, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-37016-9
Bodeen follows her riveting debut novel, The Compound (2008), with another high-concept thriller. Fifteen-year-old Mason, a “hulking, quiet guy” with a disfiguring facial scar, dreams of majoring in biology at Stanford. To do so, he’ll have to hitch
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S.A. Bodeen. Feiwel and Friends, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-250-02777-1
The Swiss Family Robinson gets a modern makeover in this series opener, Bodeen’s (The Raft) first for middle-grade readers. Twelve-year-old Sarah Robinson is stunned when her father remarries after a whirlwind courtship and extremely reluctant to...
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S.A. Bodeen. Feiwel and Friends, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-05554-5
Bodeen (The Raft) explores the limits of borrowing in this tongue-in-cheek homage to Stephen King’s Misery. Bursting on the YA fiction scene as a powerhouse teen author, haughty Olivia Flynn enjoys the perks of her bestseller success—an expensive...
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