Vivian Vande Velde, Author . Harcourt/Magic Carpet $6 (256p) ISBN 978-0-15-216353-2
Arvin Rizalli, his mother and six of his friends pirate a computer-generated, interactive video game that plugs right into the players' brains. PW
wrote, "Readers who are fond of either sword and sorcery fantasy or role-playing games will...
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Vivian Vande Velde. Harcourt, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-547-94215-5
Vande Velde previously reworked classic fairy tales in The Rumpelstiltskin Problem and Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird, and she now turns to the “The Frog Prince.” Princess Imogene, who is 12 and “gawky,” is tired of falling...
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Vivian Vande Velde. Harcourt, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-547-73850-5
Vande Velde again plays with characters caught in a virtual reality game in this overlong but satisfying novel. Fourteen-year-old Grace feels inferior to her pretty, popular, and smart sister, Emily, a college student interning at the Rassmusem...
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Vivian Vande Velde, Author Marshall Cavendish Children's Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5015-3
Before he's hanged, murderer and outlaw Jake Barnette vows to come back from the dead and get the varmints who put him in the grave. Ben, the 11-year-old narrator, and his younger sister, Annabelle, don't quite believe him, but since their dad is...
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Vivian Vande Velde, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (160p) ISBN 978-0-15-202100-9
Ted's big problem is not his annoying brother Zach, his social studies report on Luxembourg or his stuck-up cousin Jackie. He has ghosts in his house. His five-year-old sister, Vicki, is the first to see them; she starts keeping a hammer under her...
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Vivian Vande Velde, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16.95 (131p) ISBN 978-0-15-200726-3
Alys, falsely accused of witchcraft, her father dead from the strain of her trial, is condemned to be sacrificed to a dragon. So she is only too eager when Selendrile, a wonderfully ambiguous LeGuinian dragon able to assume a human form unexpectedly
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Vivian Vande Velde, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (116p) ISBN 978-0-618-05523-4
The eponymous problem, as Vande Velde (There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around) explains in an author's note, is that the original fairy tale ""makes no sense."" Hence, she retells the classic story six times, creatively changing elements...
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Vivian Vande Velde, Author . Harcourt $16 (137p) ISBN 978-0-15-205976-7
Edgar Award–winning Velde (Never Trust a Dead Man
) covers well-traversed ground in this slender novel about a 14-year-old girl who is killed by an oncoming car after seeing a movie. Various people who knew the victim—or who think they...
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Vivian Vande Velde, Author . Cavendish $15.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5235-5
For six long years Nyssa has been seeking justice for her parents who were murdered when she was 10 years old. She had suspected Elsdon, a youngest son of Lord Haraford, but his parents had provided his alibi, and Nyssa was powerless to prove...
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Vivian Vande Velde, Author . Harcourt $17 (275p) ISBN 978-0-15-205311-6
An utterly likable narrator gives a boost to Vande Velde's (Heir Apparent
) charming and funny fantasy. Fifteen-year-old Wendy is plucky and upbeat despite having a "figure like a duffel bag" and being practically blind without her...
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Vivian Vande Velde, Author . Harcourt/Magic Carpet $6.95 (315p) ISBN 978-0-15-205125-9
When Giannine arrives at a virtual arcade, she is greeted by protestors but decides to play in Heir Apparent anyway. But then the arcade's CEO appears in her game and tells her the only way out is to successfully complete it—and quickly,...
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Vivian Vande Velde, Author . Dell/Laurel-Leaf $4.99 (, $4.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-440-22828-8
In this Edgar Award winner set in medieval times, Anora chooses to marry the obnoxious but wealthy Farold instead of Selwyn, thus making Selwyn the chief suspect when Farold is found murdered. Ages 12-up. (July)
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Vivian Vande Velde, Author, Vande Velde, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-200960-1
Arvin Rizalli, his mother and six of his friends pirate a computer-generated, interactive role-playing game. No dull video game, the program plugs right into the players' brains, putting them in the middle of a daring quest to rescue a kidnapped...
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Vivian Vande Velde, Author, Michael Stearns, Editor . Harcourt $17 (336p) ISBN 978-0-15-204560-9
Vande Velde (Never Trust a Dead Man) establishes a clever premise for this consistently entertaining fantasy novel. When Giannine arrives at the virtual reality arcade, the organization Citizens to Protect Our Children is protesting out front (their
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Vivian Vande Velde, Author, Brad Weinman, Illustrator . Harcourt/Magic Carpet $5.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-15-205572-1
The author reexamines a baker's dozen worth of classic tales, casting the characters in a different light (e.g., the Frog Prince regains his human form and eschews the snooty princess for a humbler maiden). Ages 8-12. (Aug.)
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Vivian Vande Velde, Author, Vivian Vande Velde, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (160p) ISBN 978-0-15-201847-4
F-32 (or Sherlock, as he comes to be named) is a ""smart dog"" indeed--he has escaped from a university research lab where a scientific experiment has endowed him with speech and all sorts of other signs of intelligence. Unfortunately, the...
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Vivian Vande Velde, Author, Vivian Vande Veld, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (208p) ISBN 978-0-15-202665-3
Vande Velde's (The Rumpelstiltskin Problem, reviewed above) fairy tale-like novel set once upon a time features two witches, 17-year-old Nola and her mother. The pair works for hire at odd jobs, and Nola hides her magic, knowing they could be killed
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Vivian Vande Velde, Author, Vivian Vande Velde, Author Yearling Books $4.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-440-41610-4
""The enduring fantasy of a talking pet is rendered with an abundance of charm and wit,"" said PW of this romp involving an English-speaking canine escapee from a research laboratory. Ages 9-12. (Apr.)n
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Vivan Vande Velde, Author, Vivian Vande Velde, Author, Trina Schart Hyman, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-56875-0
A plain princess, a conceited prince and a rejected marriage proposal are just a few of the elements in this imaginative parody of traditional fairytales. Ages 9-11. (April)
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