Carol Weston, Author . Dell/Yearling $4.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-440-41667-8
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said of this diary of a girl who travels from New York to Italy, "Weston clearly knows a 10-year-old's take on foreign customs." Ages 8-12. (June)
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Carol Weston, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-375-80509-7
In Girls' Life advice columnist Weston's (Girltalk; For Girls Only) humorous first novel, 10-year-old New Yorker Melanie Martin tells the story of her family vacation to Italy. Through journal entries, Melanie, a likable, believable fifth-grader,...
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Carol Weston, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-82195-0
Melanie Martin Goes Dutch: The Private Diary of My Almost Bummer Summer with Cecily, Matt the Brat, and Vincent van Go Go Go by Carol Weston provides yet another perspective on the European vacation, first visited in The Diary of Melanie Martin...
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Carol Weston, Author HarperTrophy $8.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-000214-5
Author of Private and Personal: Questions and Answers for Girls Only, advice columnist Carol Weston offers more words to the wise in For Teens Only: Quotes, Notes & Advice You Can Use. Friends, school and family are among the topics covered. ...
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Carol Weston, Author Harper Perennial $5.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-06-096068-1
A columnist for Seventeen and a regular contributor to several women's magazines, Weston offers a breezy discussion of honeymoons. Her advice ranges from the practical (""Passport Pointers'' and ``A Refresher Course in Birth Control'') to the...
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Carol Weston, Author Harper Perennial $15.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-06-055108-7
Weston addresses the topic most teens wrote to her about in response to her earlier Girltalkboys. In question-and-answer, diary and quiz format, the text is detailed, the answers chatty. Both are satisfying in their fullness and genuine sound....
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Carol Weston. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $15.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4022-8870-8
Family dynamics, friendship tangles, and finding one’s voice are among the topics Weston (the Melanie Martin novels) deftly juggles in this diary-style series debut. Fifth-grade narrator Ava begins by sharing her discovery that her “word nerd”...
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Carol Weston, Author, Marci Roth, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-82646-7
Series fans can discover the latest doings of favorite characters in a number of spring novels. The globetrotter returns to Europe in With Love from Spain, Melanie Martin by Carol Weston, the third of the heroine's diary-style, first-person...
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Carol Weston. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $16.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4926-5449-0
Weston (the Ava and Pip series) carefully explores grief, blended families, and first love as she follows 14-year-old Sofia Wolfe, whose mother died of a sudden aneurysm. With her mother gone, Sofia is facing the difficult realization that life goes
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