Barbara O'Connor, Author . FSG/Foster $16 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-32258-8
Sixth-grader Burdette "Bird" Weaver joins the ranks of O'Connor's (Me and Rupert Goody; Moonpie and Ivy) unflappable and memorable smalltown narrators. When Harlem Tate moves to Freedom, Ga., and winds up in Bird's class, she...
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Barbara O'Connor, Author . FSG/Sunburst $5.95 (
, $5.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-374-45320-6
, $5.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-374-45320-6
A 12-year-old lands at her aunt's door when her mother decides she needs a break. "This novel set in the rural South features a spunky, independent heroine, a compassionate adult and a rival preteen peer who vies for that adult's...
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Barbara O'Connor, Author . FSG/Foster $16 (170p) ISBN 978-0-374-33497-0
O'Connor (Me and Rupert Goody
) blends her usual poignancy and insight in another tale set in a small North Carolina town. "The day I decided to steal a dog was the same day my best friend, Luanne Godfrey, found out I lived in a car,"...
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Barbara O'Connor, FSG/Foster, $15.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-374-36850-0
"Owen Jester tiptoed across the gleaming linoleum floor and slipped the frog into the soup." This opening line, like much of O'Connor's storytelling, strikes with lightning-fast characterization. Owen is a lovable troublemaker, whose prank involves...
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Barbara O'Connor, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $7.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-374-40588-5
Martin, a 12-year-old musician, covets a violin in a pawnshop. ""Quirky characters populate this promising first novel set in a South Carolina trailer park,"" said PW. Ages 10-13. (Sept.)
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Barbara O'Connor, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-30666-3
Quirky characters populate this promising, minor-key first novel set in a South Carolina trailer park ironically dubbed Paradise. Twelve-year-old Martin has a rare talent for music, but his father thinks it's a waste of time. Nothing Martin ever has
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Barbara O'Connor, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-34904-2
A reluctant heroine narrates this triumphant tale set in a contemporary North Carolina town where time seems to have stopped. Jennalee Helton lives in a chaotic household filled with so many siblings that she has to fight for a bed to sleep in (""My
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Barbara O'Connor, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-35059-8
Like O'Connor's Me and Rupert Goody, this novel set in the rural South features a spunky, independent heroine, a compassionate adult and a rival preteen peer who vies for that adult's affection. Twelve-year-old Pearl lands at her Aunt Ivy's door one
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Barbara O'Connor, Author . FSG/Foster $16.99 (149p) ISBN 978-0-374-37055-8
With humor and authenticity, this beguiling tale of summer friendship mines the small, jewellike adventures of a rural childhood. Popeye (so named after a fateful BB gun accident) is utterly bored in rainy Fayette, S.C. But when a passing motor home
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Barbara O’Connor. FSG/Foster, $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-38002-1
A one-legged pigeon stirs up summer excitement in the town of Meadville, S.C., in this characteristically atmospheric story from O’Connor (The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester). Spirited Stella is the first to spy the pigeon, and she is determined to
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Barbara O’Connor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-31060-8
Featuring sympathetic characters and a gratifying resolution, this novel by O’Connor (Wish) celebrates friendship human and canine alike. Fourth-grade graduate Mavis is tired of moving from one town to the next, following her mother’s every whim,...
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Barbara O’Connor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-31445-3
A boy grieves the death of his revered older brother in O’Connor’s (Wonderland) tender story. Ten-year-old Walter Tipple loves living in Harmony, Ga., which is why he can’t understand why his older brother, Tank, was so eager to enlist in the Army...
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