Jane Louise Curry, Retold by, Jane Louise Curry, Author, James Watts, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $17 (160p) ISBN 978-0-689-82233-9
Curry (Back in the Beforetime) retells 27 Algonquian creation, pourquoi and trickster tales in this well-rounded collection. Each conveys an underlying respect for all creatures and their interconnectedness, a belief held by various Algonquian...
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Jane Louise Curry, Author . S&S/McElderry $16 (192p) ISBN 978-0-689-84273-3
Good groundwork successfully supports Curry's (A Stolen Life) contemporary fantasy, despite an underwhelming conclusion. Tee Woodie isn't excited when she inherits an Egyptian shabti from an eccentric uncle, but when her brother accidentally
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Jane Louise Curry, Author, Mark Elliott, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $16 (208p) ISBN 978-0-689-82932-1
This densely layered, fast-paced historical novel encompasses an impressive range of settings, opening in 1758 in Highland Scotland and moving to a Virginia manor and then to a Cherokee village. Jamesina McKenzie, an educated daughter of Highland...
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Jane Louise Curry, Author, Patricia Ed. Curry, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $16 (184p) ISBN 978-0-689-50429-7
Precocious whiz kid J.J. Russell knows he's a lucky guy. At 16, he's the only graduate student selected to work as research assistant for the brilliant Professor Poplov. What's more, J.J. is well on his way to inventing a computer program chip that...
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Jane Louise Curry, Author, Patricia Ed. Curry, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $13.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-689-50384-9
In East Liverpool, Ohio, Corry Tipson goes to the ceramics museum with her high school art class. Her standoffish new classmate, Tip, points out Corry's uncanny resemblance to a photo in one of the exhibits. Further digging brings out the fact that...
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Jane Louise Curry, Author, Patricia Ed. Curry, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-50459-4
``Once upon a while ago, not so very long ago--and far away, but not so far that you couldn't walk there in a week or so--there lived a farmer and his wife.'' This whimsical opening introduces Curry's tale of a contented couple and their son, whose...
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Jane Louise Curry, Author, Patricia Ed. Curry, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $16 (220p) ISBN 978-0-689-50478-5
The Smith family is facing hard times. The children and their mother had planned to drive back East to rejoin their father, but the money they need didn't arrive on time. They are forced to camp out with the homeless; then Mrs. Smith has to go into...
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