Gloria Whelan, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (152p) ISBN 978-0-06-029596-7
In 1955 West Germany, 13-year-old Peter thinks WWII and its atrocities are old news. National Book Award winner Whelan (Homeless Bird
) loads Peter's summer vacation with big lessons: he helps a kindly Jewish philosophy professor–turned
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Gloria Whelan, Author Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company $15 (125p) ISBN 978-0-8028-3754-7
In 1933, Elsa and her parents are suffering through the Depression. Her father has been unemployed for months, and she herself has been so ill that she's missed half of fifth grade. The family decides that Elsa will leave Detroit and spend the...
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Gloria Whelan, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $12.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-679-80572-4
As ``keeper,'' or babysitter, for 10-year-old Matt, Annie is at first impressed with the Beaches, a prestigious summer community on Lake Michigan. But before long, she begins to see something disturbing behind the resort's clannish unity. The...
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Gloria Whelan, Author University of Illinois Press $14.95 (147p) ISBN 978-0-252-01524-3
Exploring the quiet provinces of retired people, Midwest conservatives and those for whom formal religion is a fact of everyday life, these 14 rounded stories expose the heart pumping away beneath even the smoothest surfaces. In ``The Secret Meeting
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Gloria Whelan, Author Dell Yearling $4.99 (133p) ISBN 978-0-440-41882-5
After her parents sell their house in Detroit for what proves to be a worthless farm in the wilderness, and her father takes a job as a lumberjack, an 11-year-old girl ""comes to appreciate the ever-changing landscape and emerges as an immensely
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Gloria Whelan, Author HarperCollins $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-028251-6
Returning to territory she explored in The Indian School, Whelan explores the tensions between settlers and Native Americans in this uneven tale, narrated by a girl who becomes involved with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. In 1876, when Miranda was...
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Gloria Whelan, Author HarperCollins $16.89 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-028452-7
Whelan (Miranda's Last Stand) blends modern Hindu culture with age-old Indian traditions as she profiles a poor girl's struggle to survive in a male-dominated society. Only 13 when her parents find her a husband, Koly can't help feeling apprehensive
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Gloria Whelan, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-054112-5
In Burying the Sun by Gloria Whelan, the third title in the series that began with Angel on the Square, 14-year-old Georgi (the younger brother of Marya who narrated The Impossible Journey) and his family face a German invasion in the midst of WWII.
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Gloria Whelan, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $13 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-82263-9
Whelan's ( Bringing the Farmhouse Home ; Hannah ) latest novel examines the monumental struggle and privation that a group of people must endure to escape political and economic oppression in contemporary Vietnam. Thirteen-year-old Mai is frightened
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Gloria Whelan, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-80702-5
``Whelan's thoroughly satisfying novel is sure to produce shivers,'' said PW about this compelling tale of a 16-year-old girl who uncovers dark secrets at a prestigious summer community. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Gloria Whelan, S&S/Wiseman, $15.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4424-0931-6
Master storyteller Whelan (Homeless Bird) again whisks readers to a dramatic period in world history, this time to post-WWI India, where Gandhi's unconventional methods of protest are causing a stir. Fifteen-year-old Rosy, the daughter of a major...
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Gloria Whelan., HarperTeen, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-125545-8
In a modern drama of new beginnings and sad endings, National Book Award–winner Whelan (Homeless Bird) effectively contrasts the lives of two artists, the accomplished Dalton Quinn, who appears to care more about his work than people, and his less...
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Gloria Whelan, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (168p) ISBN 978-0-06-079094-3
National Book Award–winner Whelan (Homeless Bird
) sets this straightforward and thoughtful story at an asylum for the mentally ill in 1900. Narrator Verna and her younger sister, Carlie, move to a house on the hospital grounds with their...
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Gloria Whelan, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (295p) ISBN 978-0-06-089028-5
Once again, National Book Award winner Whelan (Homeless Bird
) whisks readers to another time and place to experience history in the making. In 1907, Julia, a sheltered British 16-year-old, accompanies her father to the Middle East. Julia’s...
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Gloria Whelan. S&S/Wiseman, $15.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4424-4976-3
Set in India in the year 1921, two years after the events of Small Acts of Amazing Courage (2011), Whelan’s sequel finds British-born Rosy having returned to her beloved India, the land she considers home, after an extended stay in England. The...
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Gloria Whelan, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (163p) ISBN 978-0-06-008072-3
Fourteen-year-old narrator Mirabelle and her three siblings spend every summer at their grandparents' island cottage off of Michigan's upper peninsula. But 1942's tumult (in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor) takes its toll. Belle's...
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Gloria Whelan, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (194p) ISBN 978-0-06-058174-9
Whelan (Homeless Bird
) places her courageous and thoughtful narrator in Africa in 1919, just after the Great War and manages to place a new twist on familiar themes. "It didn't occur to me at that moment that I, too, might become an orphan.
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Gloria Whelan, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (248p) ISBN 978-0-06-441083-0
This sequel to Angel on the Square
, set a generation after the Russian Revolution, follows a 13-year-old who, with her younger brother, goes in search of her mother and encounters numerous obstacles along the way. PW
said the author "paints a
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Gloria Whelan, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-050724-4
After penning three historical novels set in India and Russia, Whelan (Homeless Bird
) invites readers to experience the unique hardships of Chu Ju, a 14-year-old girl growing up in China during the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. Living in a...
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Gloria Whelan, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-441084-7
According to PW
, "Louisa May Alcott fans will relish this fictionalized account of the Alcotts' stay at Fruitlands, a commune where Louisa's transcendentalist father and his friend conducted their famous not-so-successful experiment in...
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Gloria Whelan, Author . HarperTrophy $6.99 (293p) ISBN 978-0-06-440879-0
It is 1913 in Russia, and Katya, an aristocratic girl, cannot completely support the Tsar's treatment of his people nor condone their violent reaction to oppression. In a starred review, PW
called the novel "an excellent, vibrant...
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Gloria Whelan, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-623811-1
Whelan once again brings to life the beauty, sadness and rich culture of Russia's past in this evocative sequel to Angel on the Square. Set a generation after the revolution, this installment opens in 1934 Leningrad and focuses on the children...
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Gloria Whelan, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-623815-9
Louisa May Alcott fans will relish this fictionalized account of the Alcotts' stay at Fruitlands, a commune where Louisa's transcendentalist father and his friend, Mr. Lane, conducted their famous not-so-successful experiment in forming a...
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Gloria Whelan, Author . HarperCollins $15.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-029030-6
Whelan (Homeless Bird) shows both sides of the Russian revolution in a sympathetic light in this absorbing saga of an aristocratic girl. The novel opens in 1913, just before Katya goes to live with Tsar Nikolai II, when her widowed mother becomes...
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Gloria Whelan, Author . Knopf $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-375-81429-7
Whelan (Angel on the Square) whisks readers to the wilds of a northern Michigan lumber camp in this brief, evocative novel. After 11-year-old Annabel Lee's parents sell their house in Detroit for what proves to be a worthless farm in the...
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Gloria Whelan, illus. by Stephen Costanza. Sleeping Bear, $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-58536-483-1
National Book Award–winner Whelan (Homeless Bird) writes a substantive story about the value of perseverance. It’s set in a medieval monastery, where the hard-of-hearing and vainglorious abbot mistakenly appoints young “Smudge,” so-called for his...
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Gloria Whelan, illus. by Nancy Carpenter. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-2753-2
Queen Victoria is ready to break free from the constraints of life at the top (including literal ones, like corsets) and take a swim in the ocean. But that would never do given the mores of the era named after her—until her beloved husband Albert...
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Gloria Whelan, Author, Lynn M. Munsinger, Illustrator, Lynn M. Munsinger, Photographer Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $11.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-394-88396-0
On Sunday, Mrs. Twerkle's petunias are knocked over by a raccoon searching for grubs; she alerts Mr. Twerkle and he prepares a cage. When he traps the raccoon, he takes him past a tumble-down log cabin, up a hill to an apple tree and down a hill to...
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Gloria Whelan, illus. by Beth Peck. Sleeping Bear, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58536-449-7
In this addition to the Tales of the World series, 10-year-old Megan and her family spend the summers crisscrossing Ireland in their caravan. Megan loves never knowing what her family will discover next and meeting other Travelers along the way,...
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Gloria Whelan, Author, Gabriela Dellosso, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-027077-3
With eloquent if predictable precision, the author recreates the tensions of early 19th-century Michigan. When Lucy's parents are killed, her gruff aunt and uncle agree to take her in and have her brought from Detroit to their home in Coldriver....
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Gloria Whelan, Author, Gabriela Dellosso, Illustrator HarperCollins $4.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-442056-3
A shy girl protests injustice at her aunt's mission school for Native Americans. PW said this historical novel transports the reader ""into a believable and complex past."" Ages 7-10. (Sept.)
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Gloria Whelan, Author, Jada Rowland, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-671-74984-2
As its title suggests, this unusually atmospheric picture book celebrates the passage of traditions from one generation to the next. After Grandma's death, her five grown children and their families gather at her farmhouse to divvy up her...
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Gloria Whelan, Author, Gijsbert Van Frankenhuyzen, Illustrator , illus. by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen. Sleeping Bear $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-58536-109-0
The rewards of hard work and a worthy goal is the theme of Whelan's (Homeless Bird) appealingly sweet story set in northern Michigan, "where the winter wind lays hold of you and the snow falls until everything is like a sheet of white paper.&
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Gloria Whelan, Author, Peter Sylvada, Illustrator , illus. by Peter Sylvada. Sleeping Bear $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58536-211-0
Yatandou, the eight-year-old narrator of this lyrical first volume in the Tales of the World series, spends long days at work in her village in Mali. As she pounds millet kernels with a stick, she daydreams about going to school, where she might R
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Gloria Whelan, Author, Leslie Bowman, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-84464-8
Whelan packs quite a story into this brief sequel to Next Spring an Oriole , set in 1841 in the shrinking woods near Saginaw, Mich. With Mama in labor, Libby Mitchell must miss the naming ceremony for her Indian friend Fawn's new baby brother. Libby
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Gloria Whelan, illus. by Kirbi Fagan. Sleeping Bear, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58536-385-8
A nostalgic storybook feel permeates this meandering historical narrative, which follows white Charlie Brightelot, nine, of northern Michigan, and his summer encounters with the Civilian Conservation Corps, who move into nearby woodland barracks...
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