Alison Goodman, Author, Blake Goodman, Author, Blake Nelson, Author . Viking $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-03610-3
Seventeen-year-old Joss Aaronson, a brilliant, resourceful student who chafes at authority, narrates this tale of galactic conspiracy unfolding at an elite high school. Joss is one of the few students of time travel at the Centre for Neo-Historical...
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Blake Nelson, Author . Viking $16.99 (227p) ISBN 978-0-670-03644-8
Anything but maudlin, and the polar opposite of Dawson's Creek–ish sentimentality, Nelson's (Girl: A Novel) latest is an especially mature and incisive look inside the heart of a teenage boy who believes that he might already have seen
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Blake Nelson, Author . Penguin/Speak $6.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-240242-9
Max, a senior, makes excellent grades and achieves everything he tries. But something is not right—in his relationship with the "perfect" girlfriend and with himself. In a starred review, PW
called this "an especially mature and...
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Blake Nelson, Author . Viking $16.99 (229p) ISBN 978-0-670-05933-1
In this year's best offering on the rock band life, Nelson (The New Rules of High School
) gives an entertaining and realistic insider's view, through the eyes of Pete, the son of musicians, living in the Pacific Northwest. The 17-year-old...
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Blake Nelson, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-385-90937-2
When two sixth graders magically change bodies after bumping their heads together, the results are traumatic for them but hilarious for readers—especially those who have wondered what it would feel like to be a member of the opposite sex....
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Blake Nelson, Author . Viking $16.99 (262p) ISBN 978-0-670-05945-4
Pre-prom dilemmas have never been so amusing as in Nelson's (Gender Blender
, reviewed above) lively novel featuring three main characters with contrasting personalities. The excitement begins in the spring of junior year when romantic-minded...
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Blake Nelson, Author . Viking $15.99 (180p) ISBN 978-0-670-06118-1
Nelson (Gender Blender
) breaks new ground with this psychological thriller tracing the chilling consequences of an impulsive act of violence. The adventure-turned-nightmare begins at Paranoid Park, an "underground" skateboard park in...
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Blake Nelson, Author . Tor $17.95 (299p) ISBN 978-0-765-31423-9
Initially, this novel reads like a spoof on B-grade science fiction with the introduction of some very improbable events. First, there is a nuclear explosion in the ocean. Then, an unidentifiable “blob” washes onto a Cape Cod beach and...
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Blake Nelson, Author . Scholastic Press $17.99 (218p) ISBN 978-0-545-10474-6
High school student James Hoff is a passionate writer who rants about everything from sheeplike “Consumer Americans” to the destruction of the environment. He also writes about his ex-girlfriend Sadie, who he feels is a lightweight when...
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Blake Nelson, Author Scribner Book Company $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-83838-0
The second-rate doggerel that Mark West, the misogynistic poet who's this novel's protagonist, pens throughout Exile is perhaps the least offensive thing about this sophomoric effort from the author of Girl. A 31-year-old alum of New York City's...
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Blake Nelson, Author Touchstone Books $13 (256p) ISBN 978-0-671-89707-9
Sans obscenities, this first novel by Details writer Nelson could be YA fiction at the very top of the genre. As it follows the highly sympathetic narrator named Andrea through her junior and senior years of high school in Portland, Ore., the novel...
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Blake Nelson, Scholastic Press, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-545-10729-7
Nelson offers another sharply focused portrait of a teen in crisis in this story of ex-party girl Maddie, who struggles to renew herself after being released from a rehab center. At Spring Meadow, Maddie's best moments come during her fleeting...
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Blake Nelson. Little, Brown, $18 (240p) ISBN 978-0-316-23048-3
Nelson (Recovery Road) combines a hardboiled first-person narrative and a languid Southern California setting to establish a seductive surf noir atmosphere in the story of Robert “Cali” Callahan, a 17-year-old runaway who’s testing out a potential...
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Blake Nelson. Simon Pulse, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8813-6
Popularity isn’t something Gavin Meeks sought; it’s the byproduct of where he lives, how he dresses and looks, his athletic skills, and the fact that his tennis partner is the most popular guy in their class. But he hasn’t thought much about his...
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Blake Nelson. Simon Pulse, $18.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8816-7
Things have been tense at 17-year-old Nick’s home since his alcoholic mother, a renowned college professor, has returned from rehab. So, Nick is relieved when his father arranges for him to go away for the summer, even if it’s only to a “hick” beach
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