Laura McNeal, Author, Tom McNeal, Author . Knopf $8.95 (283p) ISBN 978-0-375-83098-3
This novel's narrative alternates between three teens, each of whom face their own trials. According to PW
, "The authors skillfully weave together several story lines into a well-honed novel." Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Laura McNeal, Author, Tom McNeal, Author . Knopf $15.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-375-83105-8
The McNeals (Crooked
) again focus on teens facing a bully and caught in family drama in this engaging and complex—though at times overwrought—novel. When smart, rich Audrey Reed starts public school for the first time, the popular girls
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Laura McNeal, Author, Tom McNeal, Author . Random/Knopf $15.99 (289p) ISBN 978-0-375-83106-5
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his latest offering from the husband-and-wife team (Zipped
) brims with affecting characters and an eerie plotline, colored by elements of the supernatural. Sixteen years old, headstrong and without parents, Lana Morris finds herself in a foster...
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Laura McNeal, Author, Tom McNeal, Author, Tom McNeal, Joint Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $16.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-89300-4
Alternating the perspective of Clara and Amos, ninth-graders coming of age, Tom McNeal (author of the adult novel, Goodnight, Nebraska) and wife, Laura McNeal, convincingly capture the dynamics of adolescent relationships but muddy the novel with a...
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Laura McNeal, Author, Laura, Author, Tom McNeal, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-81491-4
The McNeals skillfully weave together several story lines in their well-honed novel about young suburbanites who face adult complications. When 15-year-old Mick discovers that his beloved stepmother is having an affair, he starts acting mean to...
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Tom McNeal, Author Random House (NY) $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-45733-6
The downward life trajectory of a youth from a blue-collar family who is unmoored by his father's death and the discovery of his mother's and sister's promiscuity is at the heart of this impressive but flawed first novel. After an impulsive act of...
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Tom McNeal. Little, Brown, $24.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-12739-4
Judith Whitman is 44, questioning her life, and thinking about the hometown boy she jilted almost 30 years before in McNeal's affecting second novel (after Goodnight, Nebraska). At Stanford, Judith had met the "older, urbane" Malcolm and they...
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Tom McNeal. Knopf, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-375-84972-5
The ghost of Jacob Grimm—one of the famous fairy-tale collecting brothers—communicates with a lonely boy who is a clairaudient (someone who hears spirits) in this rich and often bone-chilling story. Trapped in "the space between" Earth and the...
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