Marilyn Sachs, Author . Roaring Brook/Brodie $16.95 (116p) ISBN 978-1-59643-117-1
Alice, a straight-A high school student, gets her first C+, on a paper about Pride and Prejudice
. But she finds that her negative first reaction to the book is ill-conceived when her English teacher asks her to reread the novel. When Alice examines
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Dutton Books $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-525-45962-0
At 11, smart, popular Genevieve Bishop aims to please, unlike her third-grade brother, Ernest, who is always getting into trouble at school and at home. Inevitably, Ernest becomes the center of attention, and even though her parents tell her she's...
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Dutton Books $15.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-525-45787-9
Cut from the same cloth as several of Sachs's other contemporary problem novels geared mostly for girls (What My Sister Remembered; The Truth About Mary Rose), this introspective story has a couple of attention-grabbing twists: the heroine's fear of
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Marilyn Sachs, Author HarperTrophy $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-13737-3
An eight-year-old Russian Jewish girl newly arrived in New York City in 1908 is torn between loyalty to her ``greenhorn'' mother and her desire to embrace contemporary American ways. Ages 8-up. (Aug.)
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Puffin Books $3.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-037083-6
This third book about Veronica Ganz focuses on her 11-year-old daughter, who learns some difficult truths about an idolized deceased aunt. Ages 8-12. (May)
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Dutton Books $15 (120p) ISBN 978-0-525-44953-9
Even more impressive than Sachs's prodigious output is her ability to keep material fresh, relevant and convincing. Readers are certain to empathize with her newest protagonist, Molly, an 11-year-old orphan who resists confronting truths about the...
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Avon Books $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-76139-5
Childlike drawings enhance this first-person narrative about an endearing, inquisitive girl who must relinquish her status as an only child when her mother has triplets. Ages 8-12. (July)
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Dutton Books $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-525-44683-5
Beebe and Mark may--or may not--be meant for each other. Although they live near one another, are juniors in the same high school and have friends in common, they don't meet until the novel's very last page. They come maddeningly close to meeting:...
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Avon Books $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-70964-9
When a pretty and popular only child's father suffers a heart attack, she begins to wish that her girlish mother didn't act ``just like a friend.'' Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Avon Books $2.75 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-70583-2
The stirring sequel to Sachs's classic, The Bears' House . Ages 8-12. (Aug.)
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Avon Books $2.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-70582-5
Fourth grader Fran fears that because she has to skip school and care for her infant sister, she'll never win her teacher's prize to the best studenta dollhouse that is the center of her fantasy world. Ages 8-12. (Feb.)
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Avon Books $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-70357-9
Imo's loving, irresponsible family is the least of her worries she has a crush on a 35-year-old man. Ages 12-up. (April)
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Dutton Books $12.95 (97p) ISBN 978-0-525-44345-2
The Bears' House, published 15 years ago, proved that Sachs was a first-rate storyteller. And now the accomplished novelist has done it again. The story of Fran Ellen's gradual assembly of her family's piecesgiving up beloved baby Flora to a foster...
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Dutton Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-44524-1
Although 32-year-old Vi Carmichael has been accused of not acting her age, most people are charmed by her youthful exuberance. She is more of a friend than a mother to 14-year-old Patti. The mother/daughter relationship seems enviable at first, but...
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Puffin Books $3.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-14-038553-3
In this sequel to The Bears' House, a girl's family is back together, but nothing seems quite the same. Ages 8-12. (June)
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-14-037436-0
In this coming-of-age story, identical twins with drastically different personalities find themselves growing apart as they enter their teens; PW said Sachs's ``gentle but cheerfully told [novel] should captivate its target audience.'' Ages 8-12. (Oc
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Dutton Books $14.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-525-45096-2
Dee and Dezzy may be twins, but they're radically different. Dee has lot of friends and likes clothes, rock music and boys. Dezzy, on the other hand, prefers the company of her family and still enjoys childhood pleasures, like choosing a treat from...
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-14-034682-4
Best friends since kindergarten, Pat and Lolly begin to grow apart as they approach high school graduation; PW said, ``This is a story capitalizing on Sachs's ability to combine rugged humor and pathos.'' Ages 10-up. (May)
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-034681-7
Since their divorcing parents plan to split them up, 10-year-old twins Mathilda and Matthew run away to live in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, where they become enmeshed in the murders of homeless people. Ages 8-12. (May)
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Dutton Books $14.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-525-44571-5
Ten-year-old twins Mathilda and Mathewstet run away because their separating parents plan to split them up. They intend to stay with an uncle in San Francisco, but he is away and the twins resort to sleeping in Golden Gate Park, where someone is...
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Laurel Leaf Library $2.75 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-92468-5
Jeff is in love with Norma when he makes a cruel remark about the fat girl, Ellen. When he apologizes to Ellen, he senses his power over her, and enters a Svengali-like relationship with her. ""This is a clear-sighted, gripping story that will...
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Marilyn Sachs, Author Doubleday Books for Young Readers $11.95 (113p) ISBN 978-0-385-17609-5
Readers sense Sachs's empathy for young people in The Bear's House, Veronica Ganz and her other unforgettable novels. Here we meet new people the author persuades us to laugh and cry with and sometimes scorn. Isabelle (Izzy) Cummings tells about her
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Marilyn Sachs, Author, Rosanne Litzinger, Illustrator . Atheneum/Jackson $15 (80p) ISBN 978-0-689-84581-9
Like everyone else in her building, 10-year-old Lily loathes the man in apartment 3D: "Mr. Freeman was mean, unfriendly, and nasty," she reports as narrator. But when she is locked out of her apartment and none of the other neighbors are...
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Marilyn Sachs, Author, Meredith Johnson, Illustrator Dutton Children's Books $14.99 (70p) ISBN 978-0-525-46005-3
Just about every scenario and scrap of dialogue in Sachs's (Almost Fifteen) portrayal of two young sisters ring true. Eight snappy vignettes depict the joys and trials of sisterhood, placing a humorous emphasis on the latter. When Winnie is born,...
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