Bruce Brooks, Selected by, Bruce Brooks, Author, Bruce Brooks, Compiled by Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4495-9
Brooks's (The Moves Make the Man; What Hearts?) aim with this collection of works from 20 naturalist writers is to demonstrate ""not how people write about what happens in the natural world, but how they think about it."" He begins with the most...
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Bruce Brooks, Author . HarperCollins $15.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-027818-2
Newbery Honor author Brooks (The Moves Make the Man) presents seven vignettes that expose the complex nature of Dolores, an uncommonly beautiful and bright girl who evolves from an outgoing, trusting seven-year-old to a cynical, seemingly friendless
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Bruce Brooks, Author Laura Geringer Book $13.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-027060-5
More surreal then Brooks's What Hearts?, this philosophical novel does not court mass appeal. Initially, readers may have trouble making connections between the 14-year-old narrator's rambling thoughts about chessboard patterns, images of Christ and
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Bruce Brooks, Author Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (132p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2420-3
``This is a book about boy stuff, written for boys to read, by a former boy who is now raising two boys of his own.'' So begins the latest from Newbery Honor winner Brooks ( What Hearts ; The Moves Make the Man ). In his first collection of essays,...
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Bruce Brooks, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (194p) ISBN 978-0-06-021131-8
Quieter but no less penetrating than Brooks's futuristic No Kidding , this present-day saga traces the formative years of Asa, who has spent most of his life moving from one town to another with his emotionally fragile mother and bullying stepfather.
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Bruce Brooks, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $13.95 (74p) ISBN 978-0-374-30334-1
The wit and impressive subject mastery of novelist and nonfiction writer Brooks ( The Moves Make the Man ; On the Wing ) once again produces eye-opening results in the new Knowing Nature series. Predator! portrays nature's bizarre and brilliant...
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Bruce Brooks, Author HarperCollins Publishers $13 (70p) ISBN 978-0-06-020728-1
The heart attack and near-death of the narrator's grandfather are the focus of Brooks's new novel, a lyrical, mystical excursion into the realm of the spirit and a testament to the power of hope and love. The events of the novel are not in...
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Bruce Brooks, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14 (207p) ISBN 978-0-06-020722-9
After peeking back at the '60s in Midnight Hour Encores , Brooks takes readers into the next century, to a world that has some very specific extremes, but, in other ways, has changed very little. Sam, 14, has placed his younger brother Ollie with a...
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Bruce Brooks, Author HarperCollins Publishers $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-447051-3
Set in the middle of the 21st century, this powerful novel concerns Sam, 14, who feels the need to take charge of his family; according to PW , ``an emotional tour de force that is as harrowing as it is real.'' Ages 12-up. (Feb.)
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Bruce Brooks, Author HarperCollins $15.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-028972-0
Baseball fans may appreciate the message of Brooks's latest, but the author's followers may be disappointed at the sketchy characterizations here. As the novel opens, pitcher Vincent Cary--aka ""Whiz""--and his shortstop pal Eddie ""E6"" Marchant...
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Bruce Brooks, Author HarperCollins $14.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-06-028236-3
Beginning with an out-of-body experience for the protagonist, the frequently dreamlike atmosphere of this novel distances the audience from the weighty events occurring here. Alice is an 11-year-old girl whose hunger strike takes her precariously...
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Bruce Brooks, Author HarperTrophy $4.5 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-440597-3
Brooks's (The Moves Make the Man) face-off of The Wolfbay Wings series takes shape in this credible story of Dixon Woods's (a.k.a. Woodsie's) rookie ice-hockey season. After careful research, Woodsie's competitive mother, a scientist, decides that...
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Bruce Brooks, Author Hyperion Books $4.5 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1026-0
Regarding this collection of essays ``about boy stuff,'' PW said, ``Brooks knows what boys like and what they worry about. ...[His] voice is strong and confident, filled with humor and understanding.'' Ages 10-14. (May)
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Bruce Brooks, Author HarperTrophy $6.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-447127-5
``Effectively revealing the psychological burdens of an intelligent, sensitive child, this book remains honest and intense from beginning to end,'' PW said in a starred review of this Newbery Honor title. Ages 12-up.(Feb.)...
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Bruce Brooks, Author . HarperTempest $6.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-054062-3
An uncommonly beautiful and bright girl evolves from an outgoing, trusting seven-year-old to a cynical, seemingly friendless teenager. PW
called Brooks's portrayal of Dolores "the literary equivalent of the adolescent experience: a...
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Bruce Brooks, Author . S&S/Simon Pulse $6.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-689-83442-4
In this trilogy of stories, teen protagonists contend with the "remains" of a recently deceased loved one. "Although all of the tales center around a death, they are surprisingly life-affirming as they reveal the many faces of grief,"
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Bruce Brooks, Author . HarperTrophy $5.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-440774-8
As the urge to win gradually overtakes pitcher Whiz, he begins printing up baseball cards for fictional players with dream stats—and they begin to materialize, bringing with them a winning streak for his team. "Baseball fans may...
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Brooks (What Hearts; The Moves Make the Man) takes an original approach to a traditionally macabre motif in this trilogy of stories. In all three selections, teens contend with the "remains" of a recently deceased loved one. The author opens
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Bruce Brooks, Author, Elena Pavlov, Illustrator Laura Geringer Book $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-023594-9
In his first picture book, Brooks (What Hearts?) serves up a disjointed text, which is overwhelmed by debut artist Pavlov's nostalgic collages of Victorian illustrations. The hand-sized book, jacketed with a frosty transparent cover, resembles a...
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Bruce Brooks, Author, Brooks, Author HarperTrophy $4.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-447214-2
A 14-year-old boy is shocked when his hash-smoking parents return from vacation as zealous converts. ""Some readers may be put off by the author's satirical depiction of born-again Christians, others will applaud his attempt to challenge...
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