Trudy Krisher, Author . Holiday $17.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1791-9
Krisher's (Spite Fences
) historical novel begins in 1837, shortly after a stable fire has killed six residents of Millbrook, Mass. Brief monologues by 10 surviving townspeople convey the general mood of sad bewilderment while introducing...
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Trudy Krisher, Author . Holiday $17.95 (315p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2035-3
Written from the perspective of a sheltered teen growing up during the Cold War, this book vividly shows the detrimental effects of unleashed suspicions and wide-spread fear. High school freshman Genevieve, a native of Easton, N.C., is well aware of
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Trudy Krisher, Author Laurel Leaf Library $6.5 (288p) ISBN 978-0-440-22016-9
""This painfully realistic first novel evokes tensions in the South at the brink of the civil rights movement,"" said PW in a starred review. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)...
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Trudy Krisher, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-32272-0
This companion novel to Spite Fences examines another corner of Kinship, Ga., in the early '60s, this time focusing on the ironically named Happy Trails trailer camp. Fifteen-year-old Pert Wilson has always struggled, as has her brother, a high...
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Trudy Krisher, Author Laurel Leaf Library $4.5 (304p) ISBN 978-0-440-22023-7
This companion to Spite Fences, said PW, is a ""wholly convincing"" portrait of a stir-crazy 15-year-old girl living in a Georgia trailer park in the early 1960s. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Trudy Krisher, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (283p) ISBN 978-0-385-32088-7
Coming of age during the '60s in the poor-white section of Kinship, Ga., Maggie Pugh sees the effects of poverty all around her: her neighbors have become violent; her father has grown quiet and somber; and her angry, desperate mother clings to the...
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