Stephen Schwandt, Author . Bridge Works $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-882593-88-0
If YA author Schwandt's first foray into adult fiction pays too explicit an homage to John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee, the novel makes nice use of Wisconsin's watery Door County peninsula. Schoolteacher JP Griffin, who has fled to Door...
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Stephen Schwandt, Author Atheneum Books $14.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-689-31557-2
For the fifth time in three years, Eddie is the new kid in school, this time at Nicollet High in Minneapolis. On his first day, classmate Angela, a gorgeous actress with the New Energy Theater Troupe (NETT), remembers him from his audition with the...
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Stephen Schwandt, Author Henry Holt & Company $13.95 (161p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0575-2
Brendon, 17, is shocked and saddened when his father Michael is killed in a car accident. His brother Ross and his mother Anne struggle to accept Michael's death, but Brendon denies his pain. He cannot cope with grief until he understands the anger...
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Stephen Schwandt, Author Holt McDougal $11.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-03-005182-1
Schwandt's first novel is gripping, unarguably professional, although marred to a degree by irrelevant incidents. (Some of these, such as a passionately committed teacher's inveighing against our shoddy public-school system, would make an absorbing...
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Stephen Schwandt, Author Henry Holt & Company $0 (115p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0091-7
After her parents' divorce, pretty and intelligent Juliet is vulnerable and appreciates the attention of her writing teacher, Troy Conner. e involves her in an experiment; he will harass her in class and give her extra work. They will observe the...
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