Will Weaver, Author . HarperTempest $15.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-009473-7
This tension-filled novel about a teen's downward spiral will almost certainly hit a nerve. As the story opens, narrator Jed Berg seems to have it all: parents everyone (including Jed) admires, an older, very popular girlfriend, a Camaro (which...
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Will Weaver, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (230p) ISBN 978-0-06-440854-7
In what PW
called "an imaginative and plausible rendering of a futuristic society," the year is 2008, two years after a massive volcano has wreaked havoc in the U.S., and a 16-year-old boy knows that the only way for his family to survive...
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Will Weaver, Author . HarperTempest $6.99 (232p) ISBN 978-0-06-009475-1
A popular teen and tennis champ meets a "punk chick" who informs him that his father is having an affair with her mother. "This tension-filled novel about a teen's downward spiral will almost certainly hit a nerve," wrote PW
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Will Weaver, Author . FSG $17 (232p) ISBN 978-0-374-32485-8
Weaver once again makes the most ofthe rural Midwestern settings and quiet moral dilemmas he used to such strong effect in his baseball trilogy (Striking Out
; Farm Team
; Hard Ball
) in this intimate coming-of-age novel set in 1965 Minnesota. Farm...
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Will Weaver, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $14.95 (163p) ISBN 978-0-374-35060-4
Weaver (Defect
; Full Service
) launches his Motor series with this fast-paced introduction to the rough-and-tumble world of car racing. Headwaters Speedway in northern Minnesota is a struggling track desperate for some big-name racers to draw in...
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Will Weaver, Author Graywolf Press $12.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-55597-125-0
In these 12 stories, the author of the impressive Red Earth, White Earth limns a poignant burial on the family farm, a memorable deer hunt, the tragic auction of a foreclosed farm. ``Weaver captures the flow of family cycles and lifestyles in a very
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Will Weaver, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-027121-3
In this third novel (after Striking Out and Farm Team) starring Billy Baggs, the farmboy with a mean fast pitch, sparks start flying on and off the diamond when the hero locks horns with archenemy and rival ballplayer Archer ""King"" Kenwood. Billy...
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Will Weaver, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-028811-2
The year is 2008, two years after a massive volcano has wreaked havoc in the United States. The air is polluted with ash, crops keep failing, fuel is scarce and looting is rampant. Sixteen-year-old Miles knows that the only way for his family to...
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Will Weaver, Author Simon & Schuster $16.45 (205p) ISBN 978-0-671-67097-9
In these 12 stories, the author of the impressive Red Earth, White Earth returns to the enduring theme of farmland, small towns and family life. Perhaps most delicately executed is the title narrative, an elegiac tribute to the heartland of America,
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Will Weaver, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-023346-4
At 13, Billy Baggs, the only surviving child in a struggling farm family in northern Minnesota, carries the memory of having caused the accidental death of his older brother, Robert, five years earlier, in 1965. When he gradually becomes involved in
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Will Weaver, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (283p) ISBN 978-0-06-023588-8
Weaver (Striking Out) combines wickedly sharp wit with a love of baseball and intimate knowledge of farm life to yield an emotionally satisfying tale. With a classic triumph-of-the-underdogs theme, simplistic resolution (all anyone needs to iron out
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Will Weaver, Author, Jim Carroll, Illustrator Harper Teen $7.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-447113-8
In this story of a 13-year-old Minnesota boy's adjustment to a hardscrabble existence, PW found ``a wealth of lovingly recounted details'' and ``flashes of humor [that] serve as relief.'' Ages 10-up. (Apr.)
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Edited by Nick Healy. Capstone/Switch Press, $16.99 (232p) ISBN 978-1-63079-012-7
More than 40 brief true stories from Pete Hautman, Alison McGhee, Adam Rex, Jon Scieszka and others address a vast range of experiences and emotions that will be painfully familiar to teens or anyone who ever was one. Several stories, like Rachael...
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