Lila Perl, Author Clarion Books $12.95 (166p) ISBN 978-0-89919-447-9
This continuing adventure of 13-year-old fat Glenda finds her newly thin but waiting for the threatening ghost of her former self to return. The fast-paced action revolves around this and other changes: how to get along in an adult world, away from...
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Lila Perl, Author Scholastic $0 (170p) ISBN 978-0-590-41131-8
Embarrassed by her parents, who run a ballroom dance studio, and with only clinging, nerdy Irma for a friend, Katie, 14, fills her diary with events she wishes would happen to her. Finally she decides to make those events real, and, for starters,...
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Lila Perl, Author Pocket Books $2.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64857-2
Glenda finds that along with her new, slim appearance comes unexpected problems in this fast, thoroughly enjoyable read. Ages 10-14. (June)
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Lila Perl, Author Clarion Books $16 (104p) ISBN 978-0-89919-745-6
The subtitle of Perl's engrossing genealogy handbook seems entirely accurate: in a thoroughly readable style, she does indeed make searching out one's lineage fun. From the first chapter, ``Who Cares About Great-Uncle Edgar,'' through to an appendix
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Lila Perl. Ig/Skurnick (Consortium, dist.), $12.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-9396-0127-8
Published posthumously, Perl’s moving WWII novel set in the Bronx traces a Jewish girl’s growing awareness of the atrocities occurring overseas. At first, 12-year-old Isabel views the war as an inconvenience, bemoaning new rationing rules and the...
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Lila Perl. Ig/Skurnick (Consortium, dist.), $12.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-939601-53-7
In Perl’s final book, a companion to Isabel’s War (2014), the author tells the harrowing saga of Lilli, a Jewish refugee racked with guilt over leaving her family behind in Germany during Hitler’s reign. Assuming the identity of her younger sister,...
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Lila Perl, Author, Lila Perl Yerkow, Author, James Cross Giblin, Editor Clarion Books $13.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-395-53341-3
Fat Glenda returns to Long Island after a summer of romance--and slenderness--only to find that depression has caused her to gain 10 pounds. Then Glenda meets Giselle, who is far fatter than Glenda ever was. Giselle helps Glenda break into ``plus...
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Lila Perl, Author, Erika Weihs, Illustrator Clarion Books $8.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-395-54796-0
This extensively researched account of Egyptian rituals concerning death and burial features maps, diagrams and numerous intriguing photographs. Ages 8-11. (Oct.)
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Lila Perl, Author, Erika Weihs, Illustrator Clarion Books $13.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-89919-327-4
Sprinkled with anecdotes, laced with folklore, Perl's book entices readers into thinking about familiar territory in a new way. After first discussing the way a seven-day week was settled upon, the book launches into elaborate chapters on how each...
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Lila Perl, Author, Marian B. Lazan, Author, Marion Blumenthal Lazan, Author Greenwillow Books $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-688-14294-0
Amid a growing number of memoirs about the Holocaust, this book warrants attention both for the uncommon experiences it records and for the fullness of that record. Marion Blumenthal was not quite five years old in 1939 when her family fled Germany...
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Don't Sing Before Breakfast, Don't Sleep in the Moonlight: Everyday Superstitions and How They Began
Lila Perl, Author, Erika Weiihs, Illustrator Clarion Books $14.95 (90p) ISBN 978-0-89919-504-9
Perl and Weihs, whose Blue Monday and Friday the Thirteenth was an excellent assemblage of the facts and fictions surrounding the days of the week, have put similar care into this book. The author begins at sun-up and concludes at bedtime, listing...
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Lila Perl, Author, I. B. Ohlsson, Illustrator, Ib Ohlsson, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4707-3
Perl highlights historical moments and movements with tales from all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Ages 9-12. (July)...
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