Yona Zeldis McDonough, Author . Doubleday $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-50361-7
Father and son fall for the same girl in this uneven debut. Oscar Kornblatt, first violinist for the New York City Ballet, finds the quiet routine of his life shattered when he meets Ginny Valentine, an ambitious member of the corps de ballet....
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Yona Zeldis McDonough, Author . Doubleday $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-50362-4
Infidelity serves as both consolation and punishment in this domestic drama by McDonough (The Four Temperaments
) about a Brooklyn couple who try to piece their lives together after the death of their only child. Rick, a podiatrist, and Naomi, a...
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Yona Zeldis McDonough, Author . Pocket/Downtown $15 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4391-0253-4
McDonough third novel hurls a series of highly implausible events at its conventional urban heroine, to predictable and disappointing results. Mia Saul, a single mother in Brooklyn, struggles with a tight budget, an unreliable ex-husband and a...
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Yona Zeldis McDonough. NAL, $15 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-451-23794-1
Family get-togethers gone wrong are fertile ground for dramatic fun, but McDonough (Breaking the Bank) fails to deliver anything better than a frustrating mess. Angelica, the 30-year-old baby of the Silverstein family, has invited her entire clan to
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Yona Zeldis McDonough. NAL, $15 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-23953-2
McDonough (A Wedding in Great Neck) crafts a complex romantic tale of two families, skillfully developing multidimensional characters. Widow Christina Connelly desperately needs interior design work to pay for the mortgage on her Brooklyn home and...
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Yona Zeldis McDonough. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-545-85095-7
A winning protagonist propels this WWII adventure, which is set in 1942 in a Nazi-occupied French village. Diminutive yet determined 12-year-old Marcel loves to ride his bicycle and adores the Tour de France, which has been suspended because of the...
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Yona Zeldis McDonough, Author, Bethanne Andersen, Illustrator , illus. by Bethanne Andersen. Holt/Ottaviano $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8192-3
Enchanting gouache and pastel paintings adorn this thorough biography of Little Women
author Alcott. Painted in a somewhat naïve style with elongated, flowing lines, single portraits of Alcott dominate several of Andersen’s (Patience...
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Yona Zeldis McDonough, Author, Kimberly Bulcken Root, Illustrator , illus. by Kimberly Bulcken Root. Holt $16.95 (90p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6337-0
This solemnly straightforward chapter book follows Claudine, a Jewish French girl, and her beloved doll Violette as her world is turned upside down twice: first when the Nazis occupy France, and then again when the eight-year-old must leave Papa and
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Yona Zeldis McDonough, Author, Malcah Zeldis, Illustrator , illus. by Malcah Zeldis. Walker $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8027-8821-4
The daughter-mother collaborators behind Sisters in Strength: American Women Who Made a Difference
offer a clear portrait of South African leader Nelson Mandela. McDonough provides a straightforward chronology of her subject's life, noting...
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Yona Zeldis McDonough, Author, Malcah Zeldis, Illustrator , illus. by Malcah Zeldis. Walker $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8027-8997-6
This mother-daughter team (The Life of Ben Franklin
, reviewed May 1) casts a bright spotlight on the pro baseball player born in New York in 1911 to parents who were Orthodox Jews. The anecdotal narrative underscores the effort that Greenberg put...
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Yona Zeldis McDonough, Author, Malcah Zeldis, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4924-4
Mother-daughter team McDonough and Zeldis (Eve and Her Sisters) reunite to introduce children to the Holocaust in this sensitive portrayal of the famous adolescent. McDonough acknowledges that the subject may be difficult for picture-book aged...
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Yona Zeldis McDonough, Author, Malcah Zeldis, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6102-4
McDonough (Eve and Her Sisters: Women of the Old Testament) shines the spotlight on 11 examples of girl power in this picture-book history volume. The life and key achievements of such influential figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Amelia
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Yona Zeldis McDonough, Author, Malcah Zeldis, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7856-5
This mother-daughter team (Anne Frank) shapes a dense, well-balanced portrait of Franklin, illuminating his extensive achievements as inventor, businessman, scientist, politician, statesman and ambassador. The picture-book biography opens with a...
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Yona Zeldis McDonough, Author, Heather Maione, Illustrator , illus. by Heather Maione. Viking $14.99 (118p) ISBN 978-0-670-01091-2
Taking loose inspiration from the true-life story of the late Madame Alexander, whose New York–based company has been producing dolls since 1923, McDonough (The Doll with the Yellow Star
) fashions a wholesome tale of a Russian-Jewish...
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Yona Zeldis McDonough, Author, Malcah Zeldis, Author, Malcah Zeldis, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-12512-7
Loudly colored folk-art paintings herald the patience, courage and strength of female figures from the Bible in this collection of brief stories. Beginning with Eve, McDonough retells 14 famous episodes, incorporating passages from the King James...
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Yona Zeldis McDonough, illus. by Jennifer Thermes. Holt/Ottaviano, $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9542-5
Fans of the Little House series will welcome this opportunity to immerse themselves in the lives of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family. McDonough’s (The Doll Shop Downstairs) slender, restrained biography offers answers to readers’ questions about...
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