Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball
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| Author | M.E. Kerr |
| ISBN | 0061139890 |
M. E. Kerr's first novel - hailed by the New York Times as a "timely, compelling" and "brilliantly funny" look at adolescence and friendship
It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf's dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job....
It is sometimes a challenge for me to rate YA books because it has been 40 years since I have been the target audience for them. There are many YA and J books that still enchant me no matter what age I happen to be, but not all.
I often wonder if it is fair for me to judge a book that is meant for a 13-15 year...
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 0689842937 |
Karen couldn't tell Mrs. Singer why she had to have her Viking diorama out of the sixthgrade showcase. She felt like yelling, To keep my parents from getting divorced. But she couldn't say it, and the whole class was looking at her anyway.
Karen's world was ending. Her father had moved out of the house...
| Author | Ellen Conford |
| ISBN | 0553267221 |
Dear Mom and Dad, I'll Stay!
For thirteen-year-old Melanie Kessler, going to overnight camp was no way to spend a summer vacation. Right from the start, Melanie knew there was going to be trouble. Getting stuck with the six-year-old Tadpoles in the beginners' swim class was downright embarrassing....
| Author | John R. Powers |
| ISBN | 0829421432 |
“Hilarious, touching, beautiful . . .” —Detroit News
“A totally enjoyable novel with at least one laugh on every page.” —Fresno Bee
“. . . you’ll never forget it.” —Publishers Weekly
Growing up on Chicago’s South Side in the 1960s, Eddie Ryan...
| Author | Ruth M. Arthur |
| ISBN | 0689703155 |
Melissa was sure it was the doll, Dido, who brought evil to the family, not once, but again and again. Three generations were haunted by the strange wooden doll. Each time Dido came to light there was disaster and tragedy. What could be done to overcome the power of the doll? This is a book about many things:...
| Author | Norma Klein |
| ISBN | 0380007916 |
This book tells the story of Brett, an eleven-year-old girl with a feisty unwed-and-single-by-choice mother who's brought her up on all varieties of granola liberal hogwash. The Wolf Man is her mother's new beau. He has a wolfhound, a pock-marked face and a great red beard. A pleasurable aspect of this...
| Author | Crescent Dragonwagon |
| ISBN | 0553238647 |
I'm going to be honest with you: at least 60% of the reason I read this is because of its author's cracktastic pen name. In combination with the paperback's cover, the book summary, and a co-writing credit with established YA author Paul Zindel, it absolutely sounds like a 19-year-old human disaster...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0440402700 |
Trying to escape the vicious King Kobra gang and a troubled life at home, eighth graders Barnie and Teresa flee the city. With only four dollars between them, they hop a bus, hoping to find a new life at the end of the line. Destination: Paradise Park. But Paradise Park turns out to be a cement-covered suburban...
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0142406813 |
In this book I think the author wants us to know that Marcy is a girl who doesn't really fit in with most people because of how she looks. Also Marcy and her father don't have a good connection.But when she goes to this special writing camp to be a counselor, her life just turns so much better. I think the author...
| Author | Frank Bonham |
| ISBN | 0590338471 |
Brian's sister and mother vanished without a trace over a year ago. It was not uncommon. People were disappearing everywhere. To Brian, life had become a frightening madness. He knows that in another two years the planet will be unable to support life.
Now suddenly, his father is gone. Fighting...
| Author | Judith Tarr |
| ISBN | 0553276093 |
This is a very enjoyable book if you can overlook the fact that the protagonist is a rapist.
I trust the 'oh dear' is implied.
This book takes place in medieval Egypt and the middle-east, slightly before the third crusade, if I have my figures right. Salah ad-Din Yusuf (Saladin) appears...
| Author | Isabelle Holland |
| ISBN | 0064470288 |
Charles didn't know much about life...until he met The Man Without a face...
"I'd never had a friend, and he was my friend; I'd never really, except for a shadowy memory, had a father, and he was my father. I'd never known an adult I could communicate with or trust, and I communicated with him all...
| Author | Meindert DeJong |
| ISBN | 0064400255 |
Enjoyed on openlibrary.org.
Didn't feel a lot of depth. Some insights are nice, though. such as the description of Candy learning to play for the first time as a grown dog, how he took it so seriously.
The pictures by Sendak didn't quite reveal his genius, imo, but they are enjoyable....
| Author | Ethan Mordden |
| ISBN | 0312010052 |
"What unites us, all of us, surely is brotherhood, a sense that our friendships are historic, designed to hold Stonewall together," muses on character in Ethan Mordden's Buddies. This need for friendship, for nonerotic affection, for buddies, shines forth as an American obsession from Moby-Dick...
| Author | Carolyn Haywood |
| ISBN | 0152051007 |
Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole new generation.
Second grade holds lots...
| Author | Mike Wilks |
| ISBN | 0764972138 |
Artist Mike Wilks set out to depict as many words as possible in twenty-six images corresponding to the alphabet. His four-year painting odyssey resulted in a suite of magnificent compilations, all minutely detailed, masterfully rendered, and slightly surreal. Each image contains dozens, if not...
