Edited by Jennifer L. Holm, Matt Holm, and Jarrett J. Krosoczka. Random, $7.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-553-51264-9
Comics creators including Cece Bell, Jeffrey Brown, Nathan Hale, and Cecil Castellucci and Sara Varon let loose on lunchtime in this second Comics Squad outing. In Bell’s standout story, Ellie’s reliance on her same-every-day lunch collides with her
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Jennifer L. Holm, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-029043-6
The heroine of Boston Jane, whom PW called an ""outspoken, self-reliant young woman readers will long remember,"" returns for Boston Jane: Wilderness Days by Jennifer L. Holm. As the novel opens, Jane receives news that her father has passed away
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Jennifer L. Holm. Random House, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-5247-1980-7
In this follow-up to The Fourteenth Goldfish, seventh grader Ellie continues to experiment—socially and scientifically—in middle school. She unsuccessfully tests the dating waters with best friend Raj, a goth boy with blue-streaked hair, and...
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Jennifer L. Holm. Random House, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-553-51036-2
In this excellent prequel to the Newbery Honor–winning Turtle in Paradise, Holm recounts the origins of the Diaper Gang, the group of barefoot boys who have the run of Key West during the Great Depression. Their unofficial leader, Beans, narrates...
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Jennifer L. Holm. Random, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-375-87064-4
Middle school doesn’t start smoothly for 11-year-old Ellie, whose best friend finds her passion (volleyball) and new teammates to eat lunch with, while Ellie flounders, uninterested in sports or her parents’ avocation, theater. A startling addition...
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Jennifer L. Holm, Author . HarperCollins $16.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-028738-2
Holm (Our Only May Amelia) returns to the frontier (by way of Philadelphia) in this fast-paced second novel about a blossoming society lady who must surrender etiquette in order to survive. The enormously likable and irrepressible 16-year-old...
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Jennifer L. Holm, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-029045-0
Boston Jane: The Claim by Jennifer L. Holm, continues Jane's ongoing frontier adventures in the Pacific Northwest. Her world turns tumultuous when Sally Biddle, her debutante nemesis, arrives at Shoalwater Bay intent on destroying Jane's life. ...
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Jennifer L. Holm, Author HarperCollins Publishers $18.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-027822-9
An unforgettable heroine narrates Holm's extraordinary debut novel set in Washington State in 1899. Twelve-year-old tomboy May Amelia Jackson, the youngest of seven children and the only girl in a Finnish immigrant family, lives in the wilderness...
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Jennifer L. Holm, Author HarperCollins $6.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-440856-1
""An unforgettable heroine intelligently narrates Holm's debut novel set in 1899 Washington State,"" said PW in its Best Books of 1999 citation. Ages 9-up. (Mar.)
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Jennifer L. Holm, Random, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-83688-6
Turtle, the witty 11-year-old narrator of this standout historical novel, is a straight shooter: “Everyone thinks children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I’ve lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten.” When her romantic and unrealistic...
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Jennifer L. Holm, Author . Random $15.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-375-93687-6
Newbery Honor author Holm (Our Only May Amelia
) conjures a nostalgic 1953 New Jersey summer in this novel with a plucky 11-year-old narrator at its center. Penny divides her time between two extremes: her overprotective single mother (who is "af
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Jennifer L. Holm, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (232p) ISBN 978-0-06-000133-9
Holm's (Our Only May Amelia; Boston Jane) contemporary suspense novel is less successful than her historical fiction, but she creates here another smart, self-assured heroine. When infamous juvenile delinquent Caleb Devlin returns to Mockingbird
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Jennifer L. Holm, Author . HarperTrophy $6.99 (273p) ISBN 978-0-06-440849-3
A 16-year-old blossoming society lady must abandon etiquette in order to survive on the frontier. "The series of challenges that transform Jane into an outspoken, self-reliant young woman forms a tale that readers will long remember," said...
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Jennifer L. Holm, Author, Jessalyn Gilsig, Read by , read by Jessalyn Gilsig. Listening Library $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-0465-8
With a bright, effective reading, Gilsig fits neatly into the role of Jane Peck, a young woman in transition in the year 1854. Jane has worked hard to adhere to the rules of The Young Lady's Confidante,
her textbook at Miss Hepplewhite's...
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Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm. Random House, $6.99 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-375-84389-1
For a single-celled organism, Squish the amoeba leads an awfully complicated existence. His two best friends—Pod, a bowtie-wearing amoeba nerd, and Peggy, a pathologically cheerful paramecium—are a constant thorn in his side; he just can't seem to...
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Jennifer L. Holm, read by Maria Dalbotten. Listening Library, unabridged, four CDs, 4.5 hrs., $28 ISBN 978-0-307-96782-4
In this long-awaited sequel to Our Only May Amelia, the titular preteen heroine’s Finnish-American immigrant family faces new difficulties: young cousins who have been through great trauma visit, and the family may lose its farm. Narrator Maria...
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Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm. Scholastic/Graphix, $12.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-545-74166-8
In a compassionate story that opens in the summer of 1976, the brother-sister team behind the Babymouse and Squish series introduces 10-year-old Sunny Lewin, who is facing unwanted change on multiple fronts. Sunny’s planned vacation with a best...
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Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm. Random House, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-101-93743-3
All the hallmarks of the Holm siblings’ Babymouse graphic novels—vivid fantasy sequences, a drily funny narrator, and punchy cartooning—make their way to the irrepressible mouse’s first picture book. After Babymouse scarfs down the cookies meant for
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Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm. Random House, $13.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-399-55438-4
The star of the Holm siblings’ Babymouse books enters middle school in this illustrated novel, first in the Babymouse Tales from the Locker series. Babymouse is determined to stand out at school, but she isn’t sure how. “Goldilocks had it way easy,”
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Jennifer L. Holm, illus. by Adam Gustavson, S&S/Atheneum, $15.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4169-1373-3
Anyone interested in learning to write crowd-pleasing historical fiction for elementary school readers would be wise to study Holm's work. Since Our Only May Amelia (HarperCollins, 1999), Holm has collected three Newbery Honors, and this sequel...
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Jennifer L. Holm, Author, Matthew Holm, Author , illus. by Matthew Holm. Random $5.95 (91p) ISBN 978-0-375-83230-7
Jennifer Holm (Our Only May Amelia
) and her brother Matthew Holm, a graphic designer, make an incursion on Captain Underpants
territory with these comic books about a girl mouse. Both tales share eye-grabbing black-and-pink graphics, and a...
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Jennifer L. Holm, Author, Amber Sealey, Read by , read by Amber Sealey. Listening Library $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3111-8
A youthful voice serves Sealey well as narrator of this offbeat period piece chronicling the colorful experiences of 11-year-old Penny Falucci during the summer of 1953. Penny plans to have a dream summer vacation spending time at the local pool,...
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Jennifer L. Holm, Author, Elicia Castaldi, Illustrator , illus. by Elicia Castaldi. Atheneum/Seo $12.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-689-85281-7
Two-time Newbery Honor author Holm (Our Only May Amelia
) and Castaldi (Miss Polly Has a Dolly
) gather an eclectic assemblage of “stuff” to chronicle the intermittently bumpy year of a smart, sassy seventh grader. As the months pass,...
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