Lynne Rae Perkins, Author . HarperCollins/ Greenwillow $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-029263-8
In this quirky, effective slice-of-life memoir, Perkins (Home Lovely) shows a family reassuring a child by recalling a previous crisis that turned out all right. Andy's cat, Frank, hasn't moved or eaten since Andy let him out after breakfast,
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Lynne Rae Perkins, Author . HarperCollins/ Greenwillow $16.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-009272-6
Through narrative that has the flavor of stream-of-consciousness writing but is more controlled and poetic, Perkins (All Alone in the Universe)
captures the wistful romantic yearnings of three friends on the brink of adolescence. There's Debbie,
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Lynne Rae Perkins, Greenwillow, $16.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-187090-3
When 16-year-old Ry discovers that his archeological summer camp has been canceled, he steps off the train to call his grandfather only to see the train pull away. So begins Ry's implausible and existential journey at the center of Newbery Award–winn
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called this first novel about a 13-year-old girl's feelings of abandonment when her best friend finds a new buddy "a lively coming-of-age story filled with touching moments." Ages 10-up. (Mar.)
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Lynne Rae Perkins, Author, Lynne Rae Perkins, Illustrator . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-623956-9
Using subtle patterns of shapes, color and onomatopoeic sounds, Perkins (The Broken Cat
) invokes multiple experiences and layers of meaning in this complex, imaginative picture book. A scene depicted inside a snow globe on the jacket appears to...
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Lynne Rae Perkins, Author, Lynne Rae Perkins, Illustrator . Greenwillow $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-085097-5
Newbery Medalist Perkins's (Criss Cross)
latest picture book centers on a child's summer visit to her grandparents' farm, though drolly humorous moments throughout will ring familiar to anyone who has embarked on a family vacation....
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Lynne Rae Perkins, Author, Lynne Rae Perkins, Illustrator . Greenwillow $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-154265-7
Perkins subtly explores friendship in this understated, appealing picture book. Debbie (an older version appears in Perkins's All Alone in the Universe
and the Newbery Medal–winning Criss Cross
) and Tina spend their days “doing...
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Lynne Rae Perkins, Author, Lynne Rae Perkins, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-13687-1
When Janelle and her daughter, Tiffany, move to an isolated trailer out in the country, Tiffany must spend long afternoons alone while Janelle is at work. Just when the TV and her Barbie doll begin to grow stale, Tiffany discovers something magical...
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Lynne Rae Perkins, Author, Lynne Rae Perkins, Illustrator HarperCollins $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-688-16881-0
Perkins's (Home Lovely) first novel is a lively coming-of-age story filled with touching moments. The penciled illustrations, scribbled in between the narrative, resemble classic doodles of the junior high English notebook variety, and give 13-year-o
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Lynne Rae Perkins. Greenwillow, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-009275-7
Newberry Medalist Perkins (Criss Cross) writes a clever, off-kilter story of community support in this tall tale featuring three courageous squirrels. A crisis occurs when gray squirrel Jed is swept up by a hawk. Jed’s friends Chai and TsTs (it’s “th
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Lynne Rae Perkins. Greenwillow, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-237345-8
Newbery Medalist Perkins (Criss Cross) offers a simultaneously lighthearted and insightful look at education, in this story starring a boy and his newly rescued dog: “Both of them were just pups. They had a lot to learn.” Through Frank and Lucky’s...
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Lynne Rae Perkins. Greenwillow, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-249966-0
Newbery Medalist Perkins (Criss Cross) vividly captures the world through a child’s eyes in this quiet novel chronicling Alix Treffrey’s weeklong vacation on the beach with her parents and her “more mature” sister, Jools. In the first chapter,...
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Lynne Rae Perkins. Greenwillow, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-289487-8
Brimming with whimsy, this tale by Newbery Medalist Perkins (Criss Cross) introduces two pals who find a new friend when they set out to right a wrong. When chirpy bird Lucy visits bear-like Thomas, the earnest fellow is distressed (“bereft......
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Lynne Rae Perkins. Greenwillow, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-298630-6
“When the world gets too big and too loud and too busy,” the narrating child says, “I like to look at little bits of it, one at a time.” Considering objects one by one and putting them “in a quiet place” is also what museums do, a resemblance that...
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Lynne Rae Perkins. Greenwillow, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-249969-1
Indoor mice accustomed to cushy conditions learn to survive outdoors in this endearing novel by Perkins (Secret Sisters of the Salty Sea). Brother and sister mice Jobie and Violet are happy living in a warm human home, where their biggest dangers...
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