Gennifer Choldenko, Author . Putnam $18.99 (216p) ISBN 978-0-399-23591-7
Choldenko (Moonstruck) vividly captures the feelings of a middle child torn between wanting to be noticed and wanting to be invisible, through the narration of sixth grader Ant (Antonia) MacPherson. Ant believes she was misplaced at birth. "Dear
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Gennifer Choldenko, Author . Puffin $5.99 (216p) ISBN 978-0-14-250068-2
Misunderstood by her parents, a middle child torn between wanting to be noticed and wanting to be invisible takes solace in the idea of a fantasy family, and in the company of her dog and her quirky best friend. "This funny and touching novel
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Gennifer Choldenko, Author . Putnam $15.99 (228p) ISBN 978-0-399-23861-1
Set on Alcatraz Island in 1935, Choldenko's (Notes from a Liar and Her Dog
) exceptionally atmospheric novel has equally unusual characters and plot lines. Twelve-year-old narrator Moose Flanagan has just moved to the island, where his father...
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Gennifer Choldenko. Random/Lamb, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-74253-5
“Aunt Hortense says I try hard to be peculiar. But she’s wrong; I come by it quite naturally,” says Lizzie Kennedy, 13, who reluctantly attends a fussy finishing school in turn-of-the-20th-century San Francisco when she’d rather be making house...
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Gennifer Choldenko, Author . Harcourt $17 (216p) ISBN 978-0-15-205753-4
The latest from Newbery Honor author Choldenko is an earnest contemporary story about race, set in a California middle school. Told from the alternating viewpoints of Kirsten, the overweight daughter of a doctor, and Walk (short for Walker), son of...
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Gennifer Choldenko. Dial, $17.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3472-2
This final installment in the life of Moose Flanagan, a boy who lives on Alcatraz Island during the 1930s, brings Choldenko’s trilogy to a satisfying conclusion. The story opens with good news: Moose’s father, Cam, has been promoted to associate...
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Gennifer Choldenko, Author . Dial $16.99 (274p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3460-9
Choldenko's follow-up to her Newbery Honor novel Al Capone Does My Shirts
picks up where the first volume ended. It's August 1935 and 12-year-old narrator Moose Flanagan's autistic sister, Natalie, is headed to a boarding school for...
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Gennifer Choldenko, Dial, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3534-7
Best known for her Newbery Honor–winning historical fiction, Choldenko (Al Capone Does My Shirts) forays into high-concept fantasy with mixed results. Having lost the family home to foreclosure, the widowed schoolteacher mother of three—India, Finn,
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Gennifer Choldenko, illus. by Dan Santat. Putnam, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-24353-0
Even though Nicholas’s father, Big Nick, is “not afraid of anything,” Nicholas is afraid of “the dark outside his door, the bushes where the giant bugs lived, and the undersides of manhole covers.” A small plastic dinosaur Nick keeps in his pocket...
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Gennifer Choldenko, illus. by Melissa Sweet. Putnam, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24352-3
Newbery Honor author Choldenko touches on themes from her earlier picture books—shyness (Louder, Lili) and being too tall or short (How to Make Friends with a Giant)—in this story about Jackson, the rabbit with the titular giant crush. Narration...
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Gennifer Choldenko, Author, Amy Walrod, Illustrator , illus. by Amy Walrod. Putnam $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23779-9
Choldenko's (Al Capone Does My Shirts
) story suggests that, when it comes to friendship, size doesn't matter. First-grader Jake, who's sensitive about his own short stature, is intrigued by Jacomo, a giant boy who moves in next door. As
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Gennifer Choldenko, illus. by Jack E. Davis. Putnam, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24623-4
Having explored shyness and insecurity in picture books like Louder, Lili and A Giant Crush, Choldenko turns her attention to a boy whose mind won’t stop racing. After reading a story with Mama, it’s bedtime for Sam, but when she leaves the room, a...
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Gennifer Choldenko, Author, TBA, Read by, Ari Meyers, Read by , read by Ariadne Meyers. Listening Library $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-0434-4
The confident and youthful sounding Meyers is a solid choice as Antonia "Ant" McPherson, an embittered, smart-mouthed 12-year-old girl who hides her pain behind a constantly growing web of bold-faced lies. Ant, the middle McPherson child, is
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Gennifer Choldenko, read by Kirby Heyborne. Listening Library, unabridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-385-36160-6
In the 1930s, Moose Flanagan and his autistic sister, Natalie, live on Alcatraz Island, in the San Francisco Bay; their father works at the island’s infamous prison. But after his dad is promoted to associate warden and a mysterious fire strikes the
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Gennifer Choldenko, Author, S. D. Schindler, Illustrator , illus. by S.D. Schindler. Putnam $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24252-6
Lili, the heroine of this perceptive classroom drama, is so reticent that her teacher marks her absent even when she's there. When it's time to buddy up, “Lili's stomach twisted and her mouth froze closed,” and Lili goes...
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Gennifer Choldenko, Author, Paul Yalowitz, Author, Paul Yalowitz, Illustrator Hyperion Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0158-9
Seems Mother Goose didn't get her story straight about the bodacious bovine who leapt into nursery rhyme history. In this saucy picture book, the scoop is delivered straight from the horse's mouth-literally. Adopting the wise-cracking style of a '40s
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Gennifer Choldenko, illus. by Églantine Ceulemans. Random/Lamb, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-5247-1888-6
Fifth grader Liam lives in a basement apartment with his mom, his two younger sisters (promising third grade scientist/resident nerd Dakota and second grade expert hugger Izzy), and their accident-prone German shepherd, Cupcake. Cupcake’s bathroom...
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Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko, illus. by Wallace West. Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-81160-8
Newbery Medalist Applegate and Newbery Honoree Choldenko team up for this uplifting escape novel narrated by Chance, a forthright three-legged border collie/Aussie mix. Self-described as an unadoptable “pity party in a dog suit,” Chase is a...
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Gennifer Choldenko. Random/Lamb, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-74255-9
Left at the Home for Friendless Children five years ago, 11-year-old Lucy Sauve, once a singer with a beautiful voice, has been relentlessly tormented by the head matron and music teacher until developing selective mutism. While working outside one...
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Gennifer Choldenko. Knopf, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5247-1892-3
Eleven-year-old Hank Hooperman’s mother has been missing for a week, forcing him to stay home from school to care for his three-year-old sister, Boo, and scavenge for coins to buy food. But when the power is shut off and the apartment manager...
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