Adele Griffin and Courtney Sheinmel, illus. by Sara Palacios. Bloomsbury, $9.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-61963-137-3
Over four stories, one for each season, Griffin (the Oodlethunks series) and Sheinmel (the Stella Batts series) introduce friends Agnes, a pig, and Clarabelle, a chicken. Both pals have moments of adventurousness and trepidation at various points,...
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Courtney Sheinmel, Author . Simon & Schuster $15.99 (194p) ISBN 978-1-4169-5785-0
When Leah Hoffman-Ross's family moves shortly before the start of eighth grade, she seizes the opportunity to pass for “normal”—in other words, to conceal that in place of a dad she has Donor 730 from a Maryland sperm bank....
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Courtney Sheinmel, Author . Simon & Schuster $15.99 (216p) ISBN 978-1-4169-7169-6
After her mother dies of AIDS, 13-year-old Emmy is left to grapple with the virus her mother unknowingly passed on to her through pregnancy. When Emmy acts out, her father and his second wife, who are expecting their first child, send her to...
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Courtney Sheinmel, Simon & Schuster, $15.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4010-4
Companion novels bound together introduce two equally sincere sixth-grade pen pals. In the more poignant story, New Yorker Sophie’s parents announce they’re divorcing, her best friend ditches her, and she worries that there will no longer be enough...
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Courtney Sheinmel. Simon & Schuster, $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4169-9717-7
As she has in her earlier novels, Sheinmel (Sincerely; Positively) introduces a heroine coping with significant, disturbing change. Carly's life is upended when her mother, a stylist for a soap opera, is arrested for embezzlement. The seventh grader
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Courtney Sheinmel. Abrams/Amulet, $17.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1641-6
What initially presents itself as a poor-little-rich-girl pastiche and Grey Gardens homage undergoes a rapid metamorphosis into the elegantly tangled tapestry of Lorrie Hollander’s unusual existence. Lorrie is used to the finest things in life,...
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Courtney Sheinmel, illus. by Jennifer A. Bell. Sleeping Bear, $9.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-58536-185-4
First in a series featuring eight-year-old Stella, Sheinmel's unassuming story, cheerily illustrated by Bell, is a reliable read for those first encountering chapter books. An aspiring writer, Stella tells her story in the form of an autobiography,...
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