Kevin Brooks, Author . Scholastic/Chicken House $15.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-439-29595-6
Like its eponymous hero, British author Brooks's self-assured debut manages to be at once hard-boiled, wide-eyed and—despite its downright grisly subject matter—laugh-aloud funny. When Martyn Pig accidentally kills his slovenly and
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Kevin Brooks, Author . Scholastic/Chicken House $16.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-439-45698-2
Brooks's (Martyn Pig) second novel is an ambitious and intricately crafted tale of love and resurrection that more than lives up to its eye-catching packaging. Growing up on a beautiful but isolated island off the English coast, narrator Caitlin,
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Kevin Brooks, Author . Scholastic/Push $6.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-439-50752-3
In a starred review, PW
called this novel about a boy who accidentally kills his slovenly and abusive alcoholic father (and decides not to call the authorities) "hard-boiled, wide eyed and laugh-aloud funny." Ages 10-up. (Apr.)
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Kevin Brooks, Author . Scholastic/Chicken House $16.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-439-57742-7
Brooks's gritty and gripping third novel shares the noir style of his first book, Martyn Pig
¸ and also demonstrates the author's range. Here the attention-grabbing first-person narrative unspools as a funky, impressionistic hybrid of...
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Kevin Brooks, Author . Scholastic/Push $7.99 (359p) ISBN 978-0-439-53063-7
A 15-year-old girl befriends a rootless teen who mysteriously arrives on her island off the English coast and who the islanders suspect may be behind a sexual assault. "Brooks's second novel is an ambitious and intricately crafted tale of...
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Kevin Brooks, Author . Scholastic/Chicken House $16.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-439-68327-2
Versatile English author Brooks (Martyn Pig
; Lucas
) infuses his latest tale with a romantic—even mythic—grandeur sure to enthrall his fans. While in London for a doctor's appointment, suburban 15-year-old Joe (whose authentically...
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Kevin Brooks, Author . Scholastic/Push $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-439-57743-4
In what PW
called a "gritty and gripping noir novel," the 15-year-old narrator contemplates a mysterious deed he is to perform the next day, and he whiles away the hours by recalling the complicated chain of events that has led him to this...
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Kevin Brooks, Author . Scholastic/Chicken House $16.99 (339p) ISBN 978-0-439-78623-2
With the same hint of supernatural overtones as his Lucas
, Brooks's latest novel grabs and holds readers' attention from its very first chapter, in which narrator Ruben Ford, who possesses a form of second sight, senses his sister Rachel'
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Kevin Brooks, Author . Scholastic/Chicken House $16.99 (323p) ISBN 978-0-439-89973-4
Brooks's (The Road of the Dead
) latest novel wraps high-speed, adrenaline-laced adventure around a thought-provoking exploration of the very nature of identity and existence. A routine endoscopy goes terribly wrong for 16-year-old Robert when...
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Kevin Brooks, Author . Scholastic/Chicken House $17.99 (488p) ISBN 978-0-545-05752-3
Sinister yet seductive, this brooding thriller bears all the Brooks (Lucas
) hallmarks, chiefly the British author’s painful awareness of teenage alienation, made urgent by violent events; and a marked taste for ambiguity. Five teens precede a
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Kevin Brooks, Author . Scholastic/Chicken House $17.99 (250p) ISBN 978-0-545-06090-5
Brooks (Black Rabbit Summer
) delivers a tense psychological thriller narrated by 15-year-old Dawn, traumatized after an event that prompted her father to disappear two years earlier and left her with an alcoholic, pill-popping mother. A loner, Dawn
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Kevin Brooks. Scholastic/Chicken House, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-545-31768-9
Brooks’s latest novel may have a goofy premise, but this revenge story is no less intense a thriller than his earlier work. Sixteen-year-old Tom lives in the rough Crow Town projects in London, where gangs run rampant. As he heads to one of the...
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Kevin Brooks. Arrow (IPG, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-09-955381-6
At the start of children’s author Brooks’s solid first adult novel, PI John Craine is sitting in a parked car videotaping Preston Elliot, who’s suspected of falsely claiming he severely injured his back at work, on a mean street in the dreary...
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Kevin Brooks. Carolrhoda Lab, $17.99 (264p) ISBN 978-1-4677-5420-0
The fragmented, occasionally incoherent diary of 16-year-old Linus Weems, trapped with five strangers in an underground bunker, offers a disturbing window into the mind of a boy struggling to find sense in a senseless situation, as the possibility...
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Kevin Brooks. Pan Macmillan (IPG/Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $11.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-4472-3896-6
Thirteen-year-old Travis Delaney is certain that the car crash that claimed the lives of his private investigator parents was no accident, and he is determined to uncover the truth. First, he has to look into their unsolved final case: the...
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Kevin Brooks. Carolrhoda Lab, $18.99 (424p) ISBN 978-1-5124-0418-0
Told from the perspective of Lili Garcia looking back at her teenage years, this romantic coming-of-age novel chronicles the early days of London’s underground punk movement as bands like the Sex Pistols and the Clash were forming. When classmate...
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Kevin Brooks. Candlewick, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9565-1
In this gripping yet inconsistent thriller, a young man living with a severe anxiety disorder is forced out of his comfort zone when a mix-up with his medication on Christmas Eve disrupts his carefully controlled life. Afraid of almost everything...
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Kevin Brooks. Candlewick, $22.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0974-7
in this stark tale, Brooks (Born Scared) imagines a postapocalyptic future in which Jeet, a child raised by dogs, plays a vital role in the continuation of humankind. On the orders of town Marshal Gun Sur, Jeet chronicles “the times and lives of our
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