Sherri L. Smith, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-72940-6
Lucy, the 15-year-old heroine of this bittersweet debut novel, quite literally doesn't fit in. At six-foot-plus (she has stopped measuring her height), she is the butt of constant teasing at her school in small-town Alaska; at home, her room,...
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Sherri L. Smith, Author . Dell/Laurel-Leaf $5.50 (217p) ISBN 978-0-440-22927-8
"At six-foot-plus, the 15-year-old heroine of this bittersweet debut novel quite literally doesn't fit in," wrote PW, calling the first-person narrative "affecting." Ages 14-up. (Aug.)
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Sherri L. Smith, Author . Putnam $16.99 (275p) ISBN 978-0-399-24709-5
Smith (Lucy the Giant
) brings a gripping perspective to bear upon a lesser-known piece of America's past: during WWII, the government recruited women pilots to fly non-combat missions, e.g., ferrying planes. Driven by a desire to fly and wanting to
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Sherri L. Smith, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-385-73324-3
As the last of her family slips away, 17-year-old narrator Kendall struggles for equilibrium against bleak odds. A prologue establishes the loss, at age four, of her mother, father and brother in a car crash. Her grandmother raises Kendall in...
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Sherri L. Smith. Putnam, $16.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-25295-2
Stefan Drosselmeyer’s mother has just died at the start of Smith’s (Orleans) fantasy riff on Hoffmann’s “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.” Stefan, apprenticed to his toy maker father, wants to ease his grief by spending his journeyman years...
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Sherri L. Smith. Putnam, $17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-101-99625-6
With her best friend dead in an apparent suicide, a 17-year-old girl with demons of her own sets out to uncover what really happened in Smith’s deeply tragic and darkly humorous tale. Jude isn’t even in California when she learns that Maggie Kim is...
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