Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Laurel Leaf Library $4.5 (208p) ISBN 978-0-440-22004-6
Sixteen-year-old Brooke discovers that she was once the victim of a divorce-related kidnapping. ""Although the scenario is unlikely, the author maintains so brisk a pace and so appealingly plumbs her heroine's emotional life that the reader will...
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Susan Beth Pfeffer. Harcourt, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-547-49638-2
Pfeffer (the Last Survivors trilogy) explores how the smooth surface of 16-year-old Willa's home life with her mother, stepfather, and two stepsisters begins to crack when a crisis puts their lives in danger. Willa hasn't heard from her biological...
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (119p) ISBN 978-0-385-32202-7
Take one spunky seventh grader, add two parents arguing in whispers, mix in one teacher on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and you have the ingredients of a not-so-tantalizing pizza puzzle. It all begins when Taryn is overheard dreaming up ways to
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (154p) ISBN 978-0-385-32106-8
Orphaned at an early age and grudgingly taken in by a great-aunt, 11-year-old Emily is packed off to the Austen Home for Orphaned Girls after her great-aunt dies without providing for her. The institution is a benign one, she is told, compared with...
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (199p) ISBN 978-0-385-32033-7
Dramatic turns of plot fuel the first third of Pfeffer's ( The Year Without Michael ; Family of Strangers ) charged novel; the remainder deals with the emotional fallout for the 16-year-old protagonist. Brooke Eastman is watching a TV show about...
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (135p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1754-0
Seventh graders Carrie Baird-Talmann and Jill Densley have been best friends for as long as they can remember. But when Jill's father leaves his wife for another woman, the girls' relationship and their parents' long-standing friendship are dealt...
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09224-0
Though it doesn't equal her The Year Without Michael , Pfeffer's latest novel has intrigue and drama aplenty to pique readers' interest. The story tackles a timely topic: sexual harassment. The state's lieutenant governor makes a pass at 16-year-old
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08364-4
If asked to describe herself, Abby Talbott would answer ``inoffensive.'' In a tension-filled family of overachievers on one hand and a drug-addicted dropout sister on the other, Abby maintains a neutral invisibility. Her only friend is an invented...
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Henry Holt & Company $13.95 (130p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1306-1
Darcy, a spunky seventh grader, lives in the lower half of a two-family house with her parents and older sister. April, Darcy's sedate cousin, and her newly divorced mother have recently moved upstairs. April Upstairs focuses on the stress she faces
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Delacorte Press $13.95 (123p) ISBN 978-0-440-50140-4
Erskine ( Lady of Hay ) undertakes an ambitious dual plot with middling success in this novel of romance and the supernatural. Her tale interlaces the lives of two women: Isobel of Fife, an actual 13th-century heroine of Scotland's bloody wars to...
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Scholastic $10.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-590-41681-8
Once again Pfeffer writes with humor and sensitivity, this time in a novel about sixth-grader Laurie Levine. The entire storyin a structure similar to Beverly Cleary's Dear Mr. Henshaw is cleverly conveyed through the letters Laurie writes to her...
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (163p) ISBN 978-0-553-05475-0
This is the first novel in the Sebastian Sisters quintet that recounts the events surrounding the 16th birthday of each of four sisters and their mother Megs. Evvie's birthday promises to be less than glamorous: her great-aunt Grace is bedridden and
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Scholastic $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-40764-9
Becky and Dina have been best friends even before they were borntheir mothers took Lamaze classes together. But ever since Dina began spending more time with Amy, Becky feels lonely and hurt. She devises a plan to win Dina back; she will convince...
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author . Harcourt $17 (337p) ISBN 978-0-15-205826-5
When an asteroid collides with the moon, causing natural disasters—tidal waves, volcanoes, earthquakes and climate changes—on Earth, life as 16-year-old Miranda knows it will never be the same. Suddenly, things she has taken for granted&#
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Laurel Leaf Library $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-21911-8
This story of sexual harassment in a political arena contains, according to PW, ``intrigue and drama aplenty to pique readers' interest.'' Ages 12-up. (Aug.)
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Skylark Books $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-15939-4
A bashful seventh-grader questions the instant popularity she achieves on landing an interview with a celebrated rock star. Ages 9-12. (Sept.)
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Starfire $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-28836-0
According to PW , ``The Sebastians have established themselves as a family to watch;'' and in this fifth entry in the series, matriarch Meg Winslow Sebastian ties up intriguing loose ends as she looks back on her 16th year. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Scholastic $2.75 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-40765-6
In this touching novel of faith and friendship, teenage jealousy comes between Becky and Dina as they prepare for their bat mitzvahs. PW commented, ``This well-written novel treats serious issues in an approachable manner that will satisfy Jewish...
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Skylark Books $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-15942-4
This sequel to April Upstairs focuses on the chain reaction of misdeeds that ensues when April's cousin Darcy attempts to appease two friends' jealousy. Ages 9-12. (Jan.)
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author Laurel Leaf Library $4.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-553-27373-1
Pfeffer chronicles the disintegration of a family in this bold, heartbreaking book about a missing child. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author . Harcourt $17 (239p) ISBN 978-0-547-24804-2
The protagonists of Pfeffer's novels The Dead and the Gone
and Life As We Knew It
join forces in this third installment of a harrowing saga set in the not so distant future. A year after the moon was thrown off course by a meteor, natural...
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author . Harcourt $17 (321p) ISBN 978-0-15-206311-5
As riveting as Life as We Knew It
and even grittier, this companion novel returns to the premise of that previous book to show how New York City responds to the global disasters that ensue when an asteroid knocks the moon out of orbit. This time...
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author, Andrew Glass, Illustrator Yearling Books $3.25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-40474-3
The ever-appealing notion of time travel is examined in this chipper novel about an 11-year-old's encounter with a VCR possessed of fabulous abilities. Ages 9-12. (July)
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author, Andrew Glass, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (138p) ISBN 978-0-440-50048-3
Eleven-year-old Kelly is learning to use the VCR when she becomes nauseous and light-headed. Suddenly she is reliving part of the past dayshe has traveled through time. Kelly confides in her best friend Miri; Kelly's twin brother Scott also...
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author, Emily Bauer, Read by , read by Emily Bauer. Listening Library $45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3683-0
Bauer proves the perfect choice as narrator for this excellent coming-of-age novel. Miranda is a normal 16-year-old girl whose main concerns in life are schoolwork, swim meets and whether or not she will be asked to the prom. But Miranda's world
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