Tracy Mack, Author . Scholastic $4.99 (168p) ISBN 978-0-439-11203-1
Rory loves getting drawing lessons from her artist father, but when he moves out, she must learn to start painting her own world, both literally and figuratively. "Mack weaves together enough powerful symbols and striking images to make for a...
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Tracy Mack, Author . Scholastic $16.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-439-53590-8
Eighth-grader Joseph Eli Diamond (or Jed) feels responsible for not being home when his older brother, a diabetic, went into insulin shock after drinking half a bottle of vodka, and he wonders if Zeke's death was accidental. Now Jed's having
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Tracy Mack, Author Scholastic $15.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-439-11202-4
Mack's first novel covers familiar ground, but she weaves together enough powerful symbols and striking images to make for a vibrant showing. Rory loves getting drawing lessons from her artist father. He teaches her to see objects for what they are--
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Trixie Belle and Melissa Caruso-Scott, illus. by Oliver Lake. Holt, $7.99 (26p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9624-8
Belle and Caruso-Scott reduce Cinderella’s tale to just 14 brief words and phrases in a board book that opens the Les Petits Fairytales series, along with Snow White. “Girl,” reads the opening spread, as the blonde heroine in tattered dress mops the
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Tracy Mack, Author, Michael Citrin, Author, Greg Ruth, Illustrator , illus. by Greg Ruth. Scholastic/ Orchard $16.99 (259p) ISBN 978-0-439-82836-9
This "first casebook" in the Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars series puts a new twist on the success behind Scotland Yard's star detective. Readers familiar with Sherlock Holmes know that he relied on Dr. Watson, but Mack (
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