Books by Cynthia Voigt and Complete Book Reviews
Cynthia Voigt, Author Scholastic $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-46713-1
Continuing the sequence begun with Jackaroo and On Fortune's Wheel, Voigt tells of two boys who embark on a series of fantastical adventures; citing the author's ``gift for storytelling and the effortless beauty of her prose,'' PW's starred review...
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Cynthia Voigt. Illus. by Sydney Hanson. Knopf, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-5247-6536-1
Fans of Voigt’s Davis Farm books will relish this newest animal adventure featuring Toaff, a gray squirrel whose curiosity gets him in trouble as much as it brings happy surprises. Spanning one year, Toaff’s story begins when the tree where he lives
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Scholastic $4.5 (277p) ISBN 978-0-590-60135-1
In a starred review, PW called this comedy about two troublemaking fifth graders who question authority ""tart, subversive and wholly entertaining."" Ages 10-up. (Sept.)
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Scholastic $16.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-590-60134-4
If Thelma and Louise had met in fifth grade they might have taken lessons in bravado from Mikey and Margalo, the heroines of this tart, subversive and wholly entertaining comedy. Set entirely at school, the world that matters most to the characters...
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Scholastic Paperbacks $5.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-590-48380-3
Voigt's typically powerful novel, first published nearly 10 years ago, centers on a high-school athlete's reevaluation of his solitary existence. Ages 12-up. (July)
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Scholastic $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-47442-9
In a boxed review, PW said, ``Never has Voigt's writing been more poetic, more deeply resonant. In this bravura effort she harnesses the strength of the [Orpheus] myth to advance her own imaginative vision.'' Ages 12-up. (Aug.)
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Scholastic $13.95 (177p) ISBN 978-0-590-46714-8
Voigt's (see PW Interviews, p. 225) searing new novel plunges the reader headlong into the crisis facing its protagonist, a teenager named Tish who can no longer endure her stepfather's sexual abuse of her. As the novel begins, Tish disrupts the...
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Scholastic $15.95 (467p) ISBN 978-0-590-46712-4
Newbery Medalist Voigt just gets better and better. While her remarkable range extends from romantic comedy (the adult novel The Glass Mountain ) to urban tragedy ( Orfe ), she returns in this work to the fantasy sequence begun in Jackaroo and On...
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Scholastic $4.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-439-08096-5
""Rarely are heroines so charismatic"" as Mikey and Margalo, said PW of this sequel to Bad Girls. ""Voigt fortifies readers by respecting their abilities to recognize emotional truths."" Ages 9-12. (Aug.)
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Scholastic $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-590-60136-8
Voigt, who commendably refuses to repeat herself, veers away from the classroom-only setting of Bad Girls in this less successful sequel. This time she concentrates on domestic dramas, chiefly the breakup of Mikey's parents' marriage and heroines...
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Cynthia Voigt, Author . S&S/Aladdin $10 (256p) ISBN 978-0-689-84444-7
In a starred review, PW
called this final volume in Voigt's Kingdom cycle "thrilling, from its dramatic opener to its stunning climax." Ages 12-up. (July)
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Fawcett Books $4.5 (224p) ISBN 978-0-449-70417-2
A collection of Egyptian antiquities draws a 12-year-old boy and his sister into an intricately plotted web of burglary, kidnapping and attempted murder. Ages 10-up. (Oct.)
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Atheneum Books $17 (276p) ISBN 978-0-689-31636-4
Late one night 14-year-old Birle, the innkeeper's daughter, dives into the river in rash pursuit of a supposed thief, promptly falls in love with this runaway Lord of the Kingdom and embarks with him on a world-spanning adventure. Birle and her Lord
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Atheneum Books $18 (192p) ISBN 978-0-689-31497-1
Dicey Tillerman, out of school and assuredly launching her own boat-building business, seems ready to face anything that comes her way. But the obstacles she faces so thoroughly immerse her in the work that she loses sight of other facets of her...
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Cynthia Voigt, Author . S&S/Aladdin $4.99 (233p) ISBN 978-0-689-86620-3
In this latest entry of the Bad Girls series, Voigt revisits the world of junior high, here exploring the experience of falling in love for the first time. Ages 9-13. (Jan.)
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Simon Pulse $5.99 (248p) ISBN 978-0-689-80444-1
A young African American dancer struggles with racism and discrimination at dance camp, then falls in love with a family man. Ages 12-up. (Nov.)
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Simon Pulse $5.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-689-80889-0
This installment of the Tillerman saga (begun in Homecoming) focuses on the Tillerman brothers' search for the father who abandoned them; PW said the work ""rings with truth and compassion."" Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Simon Pulse $6.99 (402p) ISBN 978-0-689-82957-4
The fourth and final title in Voigt's Kingdom cycle (begun with Jackaroo) is thrilling, from its dramatic opener to its stunning climax. Newcomers to the Kingdom books can read it with as much pleasure as fans of the entire series (and without...
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Atheneum Books $15.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-689-31349-3
Anyone unfamiliar with the Tillerman familywritten about in Homecoming, Dicey's Song, the recent Come a Stranger and other titlescan begin with this one, a probing story about a quiet boy who ennobles himself simply by being himself and his...
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Scholastic $14.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-590-45165-9
This could be the problem novel to end all problem novels: suicide, anti-Semitism, homoerotic fantasies, family rifts, botched abortions, alcoholism, life-and-death operations--all figure on- or offstage in the Newbery winner's newest. At its center,
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Cynthia Voigt, Author Atheneum Books $15.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-689-31403-2
Set on the New England coast in the summer of 1920, Voigt's beautifully written novel traces the course of a few eventful days in Clothilde Speer's life. Clothilde, 13, lives in genteel poverty with her mother, sister and brother; her father has...
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Cynthia Voigt, illus. by Louise Yates, Knopf, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-86457-5
"If you will only have one chance, you want to make it the best it can be," reflects the narrator of Newbery Medalist Voigt's (Dicey's Song) adventure centered around Fredle, a curious mouse whose family pushes him out of their kitchen nest after he
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Cynthia Voigt, illus. by Iacopo Bruno. Knopf, $16.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-307-97681-9
A mysterious invitation to establish a theatrical troupe in India starts off the action in the first book in a trilogy from Newbery Medalist Voigt, set in the early 1900s. Max Starling’s actor parents set sail (or do they?) for the new opportunity,...
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Cynthia Voigt, illus. by Paola Zakimi. Knopf, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-553-51160-4
Voigt (the Mister Max books) delivers a warm, subtle novel about the big-hearted adventures of a group of toys living on an island. Spare but astute character development quickly establishes Voigt’s cast, which includes Sid, a perpetually hungry...
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Cynthia Voigt, Author, Stan Berenstain, Author Fawcett Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-70246-8
When Mina is forced to give up her beloved ballet, it is only her relationship with minister Tamer Shipp that helps herand himgrow up. Ages 11-up. (November)
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Cynthia Voigt, Author, Alan Bowman Steinfeld, Author, Cat Bowman Smith, Illustrator Holiday House $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1625-7
The naughty pooch from Stories About Rosie returns for three new adventures in The Rosie Stories by Cynthia Voigt, illus. by Cat Bowman Smith, a liberally illustrated chapter book. In one tale, Rosie just can't understand why the family gets fed...
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Cynthia Voigt, Author, Marc Tauss, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16 (256p) ISBN 978-0-689-82473-9
In the third novel about Mikey and Margalo, heroines of Bad Girls and Bad, Badder, Baddest, Newbery Medalist Voigt demonstrates that, indeed, it's not easy being bad: Mikey and Margalo, now in junior high, are working overtime at their schemes and...
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Cynthia Voigt, read by Paul Boehmer. Listening Library, unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $55 ISBN 978-0-8041-2203-0
In this first book in a new trilogy set in the early 1900s from Newbery Medalist Voigt, 12-year-old Max is left behind when his parents head to India to establish a theatrical troupe. But Max is unsure of whether his parents intended to leave him...
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Cynthia Voigt, Author, Tom Leigh, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $16.99 (194p) ISBN 978-0-06-074582-0
Newbery Medalist Voigt (Dicey\x92s Song) offers a bighearted novel that playfully and affectingly combines human and canine perspectives of life on a farm. Mister and Missus, a young Maine couple, adopt two littermates that are part border collies....
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Cynthia Voigt, Author, Piekarski, Author Atheneum Books $18 (276p) ISBN 978-0-689-31202-1
When Izzy Lingard loses the lower part of her right leg in an auto accident, she is forced to look at her life from a radically different perspective. Newbery winner Voigt shows unusual insight into the workings of a 15-year-old girl's mind. Izzy...
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Cynthia Voigt, Author, Markley, Author Scholastic $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-47732-1
A frustrated 12-year-old boy experiences a singular fantasy--and learns a valuable lesson--in a novel praised by PW for its ``grace and conviction.'' Ages 12-up. (June)
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Cynthia Voigt, Author, Shiffman, Author Scholastic $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-48595-1
Previously available in a Fawcett edition, this sweeping historical adventure/romance is the first volume of the Kingdom cycle, which also includes On Fortune's Wheel and The Wings of a Falcon. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Cynthia Voigt, Author, Josephine Tey, Author Simon Pulse $5.99 (276p) ISBN 978-0-689-80446-5
In one of the Newbery Medalist's most poignant novels, a teenager learns to accept the changes in her life after she loses her leg in a car accident. Ages 12-up. (Oct.)
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Cynthia Voigt, Author, Suzanne Duranceau, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $5.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-689-83527-8
""Set on the New England coast in the summer of 1920, this beautifully written novel traces the course of a few eventful days in Clothilde Speer's life. The author has woven together her themes of love, war and loss, and it is miraculously...
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Cynthia Voigt, Author, Jan Vermeer, Illustrator Atheneum Books $18 (256p) ISBN 978-0-689-82472-2
The fourth and final title in Voigt's Kingdom cycle (begun with Jackaroo) is thrilling, from its dramatic opener to its stunning climax. Newcomers to the Kingdom books can read it with as much pleasure as fans of the entire series (and without...
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Cynthia Voigt, Author, Barry David Marcus, Photographer Atheneum Books $15.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-689-82471-5
In Bad Girls in Love, the latest entry in her Bad Girls series, Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt revisits the world of junior high, here exploring the experience of falling in love for the first time. Mikey has a major crush on Shawn, and Margalo...
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Book Wish Foundation. Putnam, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-25454-3
Short stories that revolve around wishes form this volume created to raise money for Book Wish Foundation, a nonprofit organization working to build libraries for Darfur refugees living in Chad. Mixing poems, stories, and even a comic, the book...
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Cynthia Voigt, illus. by Lynne Rae Perkins. Greenwillow, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-299689-3
From Newbery Medalist Voigt (Dicey’s Song) comes this story of a tiny, inquisitive crow tackling life’s big questions. The smallest in her flock, Little Bird is expected to protect fledglings from predators. A successive attack by a hawk, two cats,...
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Cynthia Voigt. Greenwillow, $18.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-299692-3
In this gentle, thoughtful tale, four children are unexpectedly granted two wishes each. Notice arrives in the form of an envelope containing two sheets of gray tissue paper and a note reading “ONE WISH AT A TIME. WHISPER IT TO ME. BE WISE.” Bug...
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