Carol Matas, Author . S&S/Aladdin $4.99 (132p) ISBN 978-0-689-85714-0
Matas's (The War Within: A Novel of the Civil War) slim story launches a trilogy projected to span 1909 and 1910 as its protagonists travel from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles. As this installment opens, 11-year-old Rosie Lepidus plays on...
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Carol Matas, Author Scribner Book Company $15 (111p) ISBN 978-0-684-19010-5
Matas offers a powerful account of a young Jewish girl who fights back after the Germans invade Denmark in 1940. Lisa, 12, and her brother Stefan join the Danish resistance when the Germans invade Copenhagen. Stefan is deeply involved in the...
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Carol Matas, Author Scribner Book Company $13.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-684-19208-6
In this sequel to Lisa's War , Matas again presents a stirring account of a youth's struggle to fight the Nazis who occupy Denmark during World War II. In the earlier book Jesper helps his Jewish friends Stefan and Lisa escape to Sweden. Three years
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Carol Matas, Author Laurel Leaf Library $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-21900-2
PW called this tale of young Jewish boys conscripted into the czar's army ``a gripping novel out of an overlooked chapter of history.'' Ages 12-up. (Mar.)
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Carol Matas, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16 (144p) ISBN 978-0-689-81353-5
Matas (Daniel's Story) again returns to the Holocaust as the setting for this sturdy if earthbound work. Her topic this time is the tiny French village of Le Chambon, famous for offering help to all of the approximately 2500 Jews who sought refuge...
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Carol Matas, Author Scholastic $3.25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-45034-8
The dramatic sequel to Lisa's War concerns the tribulations of a young freedom fighter who goes underground when the Nazis take over his homeland. Ages 12-up. (May)
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Carol Matas, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08326-2
Despite some heavy-handed storytelling, Matas ( Lisa's War ) fashions a gripping novel out of an overlooked chapter of history. It's the mid-19th century, and the czar has ordered that a fixed number of Jewish boys be drafted for a 25-year stint in...
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Carol Matas, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (113p) ISBN 978-0-385-32097-9
""`I dreamed a fire consumed us all!' Mme. Trembley shook her gnarled finger at us and screamed.'' Such are the portentous opening lines of this feverish novel about a witch hunt in 16th-century France. Through no fault of her own, Rose Rives's...
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Carol Matas, Author Laurel Leaf Library $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-21978-1
Matas's execution of a historical tale about a 15-year-old girl whose mother is accused of witchcraft in 16th-century France is ""feverish"" and ""extreme,"" said PW, but the ""overweening injustice"" in the story ""may grab YA audiences."" Ages 12-u
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Carol Matas, Author, John Suh, Illustrator Simon Pulse $4.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-689-83084-6
Deported from Germany to Vichy France during WWII, Anna is sent to Le Chambon, a refuge for Jews. PW called it ""an inspiring and memorable lesson in courage."" Ages 9-12. (Nov.)
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Carol Matas, Author, Louise Williams, Editor Simon Pulse $4.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-689-80722-0
After WWII, a teenage girl risks her life helping immigrant children across Europe to Palestine. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Carol Matas, Author, Perry Nodelman, Joint Author Point Fantasy $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-39468-0
In this pair of surreal fantasies, a psychic prince joins forces with a princess who can make whatever she imagines become reality. Together they combat an evil tyrant in the first book and a marauding giant in the second. Ages 11-up. (June)
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