Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Yearling Books $2.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-40458-3
The Nic-Nacs (Nic for Nicole, N for Nelson, A for Amy, C for Carlos) are a band of energetic nine-year-olds who, during summer vacation, decide to write a neighborhood newspaper. With their first issue of The Nic-Nac News , the enterprising crew...
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-32566-0
Edgar-winning author Nixon combines test tube babies, art dealers and forged masterpieces with the usual teen concerns like boyfriends and uncooperative parents to cook up her most recent fast-paced mystery. As the novel opens, 16-year-old Kristi...
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15 (193p) ISBN 978-0-385-30531-0
The latest offering from the prolific Nixon is a masterfully constructed, engaging read that will delight mystery fans and challenge readers new to the genre. Tall, klutzy Liz Rafferty is hoping to fade into the scenery during the Hotel Ridley's ``mu
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (179p) ISBN 978-0-385-29585-7
Mary Elizabeth's summer job at the health club of a ritzy hotel would be just about perfectexcept for a series of eerie incidents that occur when she is alone by the pool at night. Convinced they are related to a series of robberies plaguing the...
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-385-73000-6
Joan Lowery Nixon, the four-time Edgar winner, reveals the life behind the craft in her memoir The Making of a Writer. An epilogue sharing the author's ""Top Ten Writing Tips"" encourages young hopefuls. (May)
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Delacorte Press $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-385-32245-4
They're not always deep and they're not always tense, but there's something comfortingly familiar about Edgar winner Nixon's (The Other Side of Dark) sure-footed mystery novels. Her fans will be right at home with her latest, in which a teen manages
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (197p) ISBN 978-0-385-32030-6
Katie and her mom have come to Kluney, Tex., to escape trouble for a while, but trouble seems to be lurking around every corner. In her career as an investigative reporter, Katie's mom has run afoul of those who don't appreciate her efforts to bring
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15 (182p) ISBN 978-0-385-30864-9
Agatha Christie fans will be quick to recognize the set-up of this surprisingly creaky offering from veteran Nixon ( The Dark and Deadly Pool ; A Candidate for Murder ). Augustus Trevor, a mean-spirited bestselling author, is throwing a weekend...
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08110-7
This first book of a series spotlights Rebekah Levinsky, who, with her family, escapes the pogroms of Russia and boards a crowded steamship for New York City in 1902. The journey's rigors and the agony of leaving her homeland recede somewhat when...
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Laurel Leaf Library $5.5 (224p) ISBN 978-0-440-21212-6
While Cary's father enters the political limelight, his daughter gets embroiled in a series of strange events in this thriller. Ages 12-up. (May)
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07314-0
Opening in Chicago in the late 1800s, Nixon's novel concerns sisters Sarah, 17, and Samantha, 14. After the girls' mother dies, their money-grubbing aunt and uncle take over the family boardinghouse. At her younger sister's urging, Sarah takes what...
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-385-73026-6
From the late Nixon (The Other Side of Dark
), a four-time Edgar winner, comes this middling murder mystery set in a summer camp for underachieving teens. An inexplicable panic overtakes 16-year-old Emily when she learns she is being sent to Camp...
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Starfire $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-28957-2
``Glittering details of life in 1940s Hollywood,'' said PW , are prevalent in this story of a famous child movie star whose domineering mother won't let her now-gawky teenaged daughter grow beyond her former role. Ages 10-up. (June)
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-29809-4
After Sarah Darnell's near-drowning, she feels haunted by a shadowy ghost-like presence. So when her father announces he is being transferred to Houston, the family welcomes the opportunity to put Sarah's tragic experience behind them. But the...
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Laurel Leaf Library $6.5 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-97753-7
A dandy suspense tale about a killer on the loose in a small Texas town. Ages 12-up. (Februarypset in box fl right.
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Laurel Leaf Library $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-21916-3
A 15-year-old sleuth tries to solve the murder of her great-uncle, who was killed after writing a tell-all novel about his high-profile friends. An Edgar Award winner. Ages 12-up. (Dec.)q
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Yearling Books $5.99 (149p) ISBN 978-0-440-41128-4
An assignment to research his family history leads a boy to discover an intriguing secret--but to solve the mystery he may risk hurting those he loves. Ages 8-12. (May)
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05432-3
This first book of the Orphan Train Quartet tells the story of Frances Mary, 13, eldest of the six Kelly children. Life in New York's grim 19th century slums consists of hardship for the poor but honest Kelly clan. When widowed Mrs. Kelly feels that
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $12.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-15-250355-0
Nixon's larky sequel to Maggie, Too jets into action when the motherless girl settles at home in Houston with her grandmother. Maggie is angry because her father, a famous filmmaker, has married a young ""starlet'' in Italy. The girl starts as a...
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-385-30257-9
Busy with school, a serious romance and her father's gubernatorial campaign, Cary pays little attention to a mysterious conversation she overhears at a party. Only gradually does she suspect that a series of strange events--two break-ins, several...
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-385-29481-2
Stacy, 17, awakens from the coma she's been in for four years, following a gunshot wound, and finds her world is drastically altered. The shooting incident that injured her also killed her mother. Her older sister is married and pregnant. Hairstyles,
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-50059-9
Marti's best friend Barry is dead and nearly all the evidence indicates suicide. Marti has good reason to believe that Barry was murderedbut the only person who will listen to her is Karen, a sympathetic policewoman. Because Barry's death has become
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05838-3
Ten years ago, Abby was ``Cookie Baynes,'' the nation's best-loved child star. Now she is a gawky teenager whose ambitious stage mother won't let her grow out of her former role. Abby still dreams of starring in films--but as a sophisticated...
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author, Meg O'Brien, Author Starfire $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-29602-0
According to PW, This entertaining frontier adventure/romance provides a credible, stirring picture of the Wild West ... A fast-paced and compelling narrative. Ages 10-up. (Oct.)
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author, Andrew Glass, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $3.95 (86p) ISBN 978-0-689-71217-3
The magical creatures of his Irish grandfather's stories begin to seem real to Brian in this deftly woven fantasy. Ages 8-12. (April)
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author, Chronicle Books, Author, J. L. Nixon, Author Chronicle Books $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-58717-022-5
Spirited alliteration and humorous illustrations propel this fast-paced beginning-reader whodunit. When Gus and Gertie, a pair of traveling penguins, hop off the ferryboat for their island vacation at the elegant Hotel de View, a sudden rain forces...
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author, Tracey Campbell Pearson, Author, Tracey Campbell Pearson, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $11.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-82310-9
There's never a dull moment when Shirley and Claude (stars of If You Say So, Claude and Beats Me , Claude ) are on the scene. This time they've blown back into town from Texas, bringing with them a newly adopted son Tom. Tom's sister Bessie lives...
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author, Dick Gackenbach, Illustrator Dial Books $14.89 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1500-4
Fans of Judith Viorst's I'll Fix Anthony will instantly recognize the tune in this less vindictive but far blander tale of a younger sibling's plans for the future. Without the benefit of Nixon's customary wit ( That's the Spirit, Claude ), the...
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author, Bruce Degen, Illustrator, Bruce Degan, Illustrator Four Winds $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-768210-6
When Melia begins to ask her mother questions about what she does, her mother has all the answers. ``A writer doesn't work just with a typewriter. A writer works with words. If you were a writer, you would think of words that make pictures.'' Later,
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author, Tracey Campbell Pearson, Illustrator Puffin Books $4.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-050679-2
At the end of this rollicking yarn about pioneers on a wagon train searching for gold, Shirley admits there's ``fat chance'' that she'll refuse Claude when he asks her to be his wife. Ages 3-8. (Aug.)
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Joan Lowery Nixon, Author, Tracey Campbell Pearson, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $11.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-81459-6
That wacky Texas couple, Shirley and Claude, establishes that they are kindred spirits in this rollicking prequel to If You Say So, Claude and Beats Me, Claude. In the frontier town of Hideyhole, feisty Shirley resists her parents' attempts to marry
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