Joan Bauer, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-32165-5
A family-run pool hall in a blue-collar New Jersey town plays backdrop to Bauer's (Thwonk; Squashed) surprisingly sluggish novel. Mickey Vernon's the name of the determined 10-year-old protagonist and nine-ball is the game he intends to win in the...
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Joan Bauer. Viking, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-47034-8
In a novel filled with dramatic highs and lows, Bauer (Tell Me) introduces an irrepressible boy who finds a way to triumph over limitations. Twelve-year-old Jeremiah Lopper was abandoned as an infant, then caught a virus that weakened his heart....
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Joan Bauer. Viking, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-451-47033-1
Anna McConnell, a budding actress about to enter eighth grade, proves that one person can make a difference, in this novel filled with comedy and drama. While Anna’s parents take a break from each other, Anna stays with her grandmother in Rosemont,...
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Joan Bauer. Viking, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-01289-3
Twelve-year-old Sugar Mae Cole has had to act older than her age ever since her beloved grandfather died, and her father abandoned Sugar and her mother, Reba, yet again. But when they lose their house, Sugar must summon additional strength as she...
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Joan Bauer, Viking, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-01282-4
Bauer (Peeled) tweaks a familiar recipe in this heartwarming novel about a determined girl who faces adversity with humor, heart—and cupcakes. A recent sixth-grade graduate (by the skin of her teeth), Foster McFee lands in tiny Culpepper, W.Va.,...
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Joan Bauer, Author Puffin Books $6.99 (201p) ISBN 978-0-698-11828-7
A 16-year-old chauffeurs her crabby employer from Chicago to Dallas. ""Bauer begins with an intriguing premise, weaves in unusual settings and creates an offbeat narrator to relay them. But a supporting cast of stock characters and forced dialogue...
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Joan Bauer, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-399-23141-4
In this compelling, though ultimately uneven outing, Bauer (Rules of the Road) travels to a literal and emotional backwater, navigating the strong ties that bind-and have the potential to choke-a proud but dysfunctional family. For generations, the...
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Joan Bauer, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-385-32092-4
Bauer's (Squashed) lighthearted (literally) story subtly delivers a meaningful statement to its YA audience. A.J., a high school senior who is very serious about her future career as a photographer, is quickly approaching the final deadline for a...
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Joan Bauer, Author Yearling Books $3.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-41387-5
The author of Squashed creates a blue-collar drama about a boy's drive to win a pool tournament. Ages 8-12. (Aug.)
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Joan Bauer, Author . Puffin $5.99 (194p) ISBN 978-0-698-11917-8
called this first novel about a 16-year-old girl who stakes everything on her 611-pound competition-grade pumpkin "fast-paced and engrossing entertainment that startles the reader with its underlying strength." Ages 12-up. (June).
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Joan Bauer, Author Laurel Leaf Library $4.5 (224p) ISBN 978-0-440-21980-4
An honest-to-goodness cupid turns A.J.'s life upside-down. ""Bauer's buoyant narrative will elicit chuckles as it delivers its message (thwonk!) with the accuracy of a well-aimed arrow,"" said PW. Ages 12-up. (June)
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Joan Bauer, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (194p) ISBN 978-0-385-30793-2
In the small farm town of Rock River, folks take competitive agriculture pretty seriously--and none more so than 16-year-old Ellie Morgan, who is staking everything on a massive pumpkin named Max. With the help of her new ``grower'' boyfriend, her...
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Joan Bauer, Author Putnam Publishing Group $20.99 (201p) ISBN 978-0-399-23140-7
Bauer's novel about an earnest teenager who chauffeurs a crabby, wealthy woman has the underpinnings of a quirky Driving Miss Daisy, but the story quickly runs out of gas. Sixteen-year-old Jenna Boller has the world by the tail. She's just received...
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Joan Bauer, Author Putnam Publishing Group $16.99 (186p) ISBN 978-0-399-23142-1
Bauer (Rules of the Road; Squashed) serves up agreeable fare in this tale of a teenage waitress's search for a sense of belonging. Sixteen-year-old Hope has grown used to the nomadic life she has built with her aunt Addie, a talented diner cook. She
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Joan Bauer, Author . Putnam $16.99 (248p) ISBN 978-0-399-23475-0
Bauer's (Hope Was Here
) fans will appreciate this diverting novel's shout-out to the author's debut, Squashed
, from which she also harvests a few themes. In an upstate New York hamlet known for its apples, aspiring teen journalist...
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Joan Bauer, Author . Putnam $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-399-23474-3
Lots of teenage girls go crazy for shoes, but 16-year-old Jenna Boller is gaga for the shoe business—especially as it's run by her employer and role model Madeline Gladstone, matriarch of Gladstone Shoes. In this fittingly kicky companion...
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Joan Bauer, Author . Putnam $16.99 (212p) ISBN 978-0-399-23473-6
In her heartfelt and humorous novel, Bauer (Hope Was Here) leaves teenage girl protagonists in favor of a middle-grade boy—as she did also in Sticks
(1996). But her fans won't be disappointed. At first, 12-year-old Tree, "six feet,...
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Of this tale of a 16-year-old waitress who searches for a sense of belonging, PW
said that the prose, "often rich in metaphor, brings Hope's surroundings and her emotions to life. Readers are likely to gobble this up like so much comfort...
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Joan Bauer, Author . Puffin $5.99 (215p) ISBN 978-0-698-11914-7
When A.J. is assigned to take the cover photograph for her school newspaper, she stumbles onto a stuffed cupid that comes to life and catapults her into love. "Bauer's buoyant narrative will elicit chuckles as it delivers its message (thwonk
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Joan Bauer, Author, Chris Crutcher, Author, Ron Koertge, Author Dial Books $17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2656-7
Adolescent outsiders are the subject of On the Fringe, a collection of 11 short stories by well-known YA authors, edited by Donald R. Gallo. Joan Bauer describes confronting the ""jock flock"" who have a bonding ritual called, ""Get the Geeks""...
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Joan Bauer. Viking, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-11320-2
A guide dog in training helps a grieving girl navigate a transitional year in Bauer’s tender middle grade novel. Following her plumber father’s death, 12-year-old Olive tries to keep her anxiety at bay when she must leave her familiar home and move...
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