Elissa Brent Weissman, Author . Dutton $16.99 (227p) ISBN 978-0-525-42067-5
Weissman (Standing for Socks
) delivers a tried and true plot: two boys, archenemies at first, are forced to work together until they grudgingly form a friendship. The newfound trust is shaken when one betrays the other, but by the final page, all...
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Elissa Brent Weissman. S&S/Atheneum, $15.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4424-1703-8
What 10-year-old Gabe wants more than anything is a sibling, and he gets his wish when his father announces his fiancée has a son, Zack, precisely Gabe's age. But after Gabe meets super-cool skater dude Zack, he feels self-conscious about everything,
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Elissa Brent Weissman. S&S/Atheneum, $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4424-5255-8
Weissman (Nerd Camp) chooses an unusual subject for middle-grade fiction—playing the stock market—as the focus for this lively and engaging novel, and it pays dividends. Sick at home, 12-year-old Lindy Sachs agrees to make a simple stock trade for...
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Elissa Brent Weissman. Dial, $16.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-73522-9471
Twelve-year-old Imani is preparing for her bat mitzvah and working up the courage to ask her parents for the gift she wants: their help searching for her birth parents. As one of the only black kids in her Baltimore community, Imani is used to...
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Elissa Brent Weissman. Dial, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-593-32303-8
Alternately comedic and dense, this story of sixth-grade muckrakers serves up lessons on internet privacy that are both practical and heavy-handed. Before the book begins, Baltimore City best friends Ashley Simon-Hockheimer, who is Jewish, and Maya...
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Elissa Brent Weissman, illus. by Omer Hoffmann. Abrams, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4197-6296-3
Noah and his family live in New York City; his cousin Nora and her family live in Aotearoa, New Zealand. In frequent phone calls, the two pale-skinned kids compare seasonal differences between their respective hemispheres; as they do, they love...
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