Marissa Moss, Author . Harcourt/ Silver Whistle $7 (, $7 each ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-15-216325-9
In a starred review, PW
called Rachel's Journal, one of two entries in the Young American Voices series now in paperback, set on the Oregon Trail in 1850 "a solidly researched and wholly captivating illustrated diary." Ages 8-12. (May)
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Marissa Moss, Author American Girl Publishing Inc $12.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-58485-713-6
Spend a year with Amelia in Amelia's Best Year Ever: Favorite Amelia Stories from American Girl Magazine by Marissa Moss. Amelia shares stories from the beginning of the school year to summer days at the pool in her characteristic notebook diary
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Marissa Moss, Author American Girl Publishing Inc $5.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-58485-712-9
Spend a year with Amelia in Amelia's Best Year Ever: Favorite Amelia Stories from American Girl Magazine by Marissa Moss. Amelia shares stories from the beginning of the school year to summer days at the pool in her characteristic notebook diary
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Marissa Moss. S&S/Wiseman, $9.99, (80p) ISBN 978-1-4424-2676-4; $5.99 trade paper ISBN 978-1-4424-1738-0
First there was Amelia, then Max, and now Daphne, the worry-prone narrator of Moss's third diary-style series, Daphne's Diary of Daily Disasters. Readers will quickly realize that Daphne isn't exactly one to look on the bright side: though she has...
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Marissa Moss, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $14 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-38027-4
This wan effort uses the holiday setting to drive home familiar lessons from the beauty-is-in-the-eyes-of-the-beholder school. Spending Hanukkah with her recently widowed grandmother, Rachel thinks her grandmother's menorah is ugly, even after she...
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Marissa Moss, Author Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-10116-9
Returning from school to her supposedly empty home, Luisa finds a monster who announces: ``I'm going to gnash you! I'm going to bash you! I'm going to crash you!'' Growing progressively larger, the creature chases Luisa around the house until she...
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Marissa Moss. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $12.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4022-6606-5
Moss (the Amelia's Notebook series) offers an engrossing, diary-style blend of history, mystery, and time travel. Fourteen-year-old Mira's mother has been missing for six months when the family receives a cryptic postcard from her, postmarked from...
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Marissa Moss. Abrams/Amulet, $16.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0427-7
Moss returns to the subject of her 2011 picture book Nurse, Soldier, Spy with a captivating piece of YA historical fiction based on the daring life of Civil War heroine Sarah Emma Edmonds. Sarah is raised on a farm by her abusive father, and she...
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Marissa Moss, Author Harcourt Children's Books $15 (56p) ISBN 978-0-15-201806-1
Moss extends the format she perfected in Amelia's Notebook and Amelia Writes Again to cover historical fiction in this solidly researched and wholly captivating illustrated diary ""by"" a 10-year-old girl who travels with her family along the Oregon
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Marissa Moss, Author Dutton Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-45152-5
Looking at an album of photos taken when his grandfather was a child in Lithuania, Walter asks why the elderly man came to America. ``I wanted to have the same freedom as everyone else, without anybody bothering me,'' responds Grandpa, who explains...
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Marissa Moss, Author . Abrams/Amulet $19.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-8109-8378-6
A spring break trip to Egypt becomes more intriguing when 14-year-old narrator Talibah discovers a mystery regarding Egypt's only female pharaoh, Hatshepsut, which turns out to involve Talibah's family. Not that she's initially...
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Marissa Moss. Abrams, $19.95 (56p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1874-8
Moss (Barbed Wire Baseball) again delves into America’s past, digging beneath the veneer of textbook accounts to reveal nuanced, lesser-known angles of a historical event. This time she spotlights the fact there was more than one “tea party” in the...
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Marissa Moss. Conari, $18.95 trade paper (184p) ISBN 978-1-57324-698-9
Deeply affecting and harrowing, Moss’s narrative of her husband’s struggle with Lou Gehrig’s disease begins with Harvey feeling a little out of breath while walking with his wife and sons in Rome, then races through a description of his awful...
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Marissa Moss, Author . Scholastic $12.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-439-46660-8
Hand-lettered on graph paper, infused with childlike drawings and collages, Moss's (the Amelia's Notebook series) paper-over-board facsimile of a boy's journal ostensibly spotlights his experiments and inventions (these range from...
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Marissa Moss, Author . Harcourt $7 (56p) ISBN 978-0-15-204605-7
In this installment of the Young American Voices series set on a Kansas farm, PW
wrote, "Rose's pink-lined pages contrast with her handwritten account of dust storms and severe drought. Captioned sketches and historical b&w photographs
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Marissa Moss, Author . Harcourt/Silver Whistle $15 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-216535-2
Ably balancing fact and fiction, Moss (the Amelia's Notebook and Young American Voices series) uses her signature notebook-style jottings and drawings to launch the Ancient World Journal series. The fresh, diverting first-person account of...
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Marissa Moss, Author, Melanie Donovan, Editor Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $14 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-10600-3
A worthy theme--the need to feel special--is here explored through rather fatuous text and undistinguished art. Kate, a mouse, can't think of what to paint in art class, has nothing worthwhile in her school lunch box and is always last in line. All...
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Marissa Moss, illus. by Yuko Shimizu. Abrams, $18.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0521-2
In her picture book debut, artist Shimizu finely crafts pen-and-ink illustrations with a calligraphy brush to help portray a true story of resilience during WWII. Born in Japan, Kenichi Zenimura, nicknamed Zeni, grows up in Hawaii and California...
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Marissa Moss, illus. by April Chu. Creston (IPS, dist.), $18.99 (44p) ISBN 978-1-939547-33-0
In a story infused with mystery, Moss (the Amelia’s Notebook series) introduces Kate Warne, who became the first woman detective in the U.S after being hired by the Pinkerton Agency in 1856. The brunt of the book follows Warne through an early case...
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Marissa Moss, illus. by Jeremy Holmes. Abrams, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4197-3064-1
Moss (Kate Warne, Pinkerton Detective) revisits the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, deftly folding the story of a thwarted assassination attempt on then-president-elect Abraham Lincoln into the larger tale of the famous agency’s beginnings....
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Marissa Moss, illus. by John Hendrix. Abrams, $18.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8109-9735-6
In one of two noteworthy picture-book biographies of this Civil War figure out this spring (the other being Carrie Jones's Sarah Emma Edmonds Was a Great Pretender), Moss and Hendrix focus on Edmonds' life as a young adult, as she assumes the...
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Marissa Moss, Author, Carl Angel, Illustrator , illus. by Carl Angel. Tricycle $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58246-280-6
An intimate first-person narrative carries this story of Gee, who, as a child, dreamed of becoming a pilot, and went on to become one of just two Chinese-Americans in the Women Airforce Service Pilots. Radiant acrylic and colored pencil...
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Marissa Moss, Author, C. F. Payne, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201344-8
Moss (Rachel's Journal: The Story of a Pioneer Girl; Amelia's Notebook) uses her flair for capturing girls' voices to tell a remarkable and exhilarating story. A turn-of-the-century photograph of an all-women work crew for a railroad inspired this...
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Marissa Moss, Author, C. F. Payne, Illustrator , illus. by C.F. Payne. S&S/Wiseman $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-689-86329-5
Delivered with the force of a hard fastball, the true story of athlete Jackie Mitchell makes a strong addition to Moss's (Amelia's Notebook
) library of brave girl tales. Payne (Casey at the Bat
) sets the stage with photo-real, fish-eye̵
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Marissa Moss, Author, C. F. Payne, Illustrator , illus. by C.F. Payne. Harcourt/Silver Whistle $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202380-5
The creators of True Heart
once again laud a historical heroine with gentle restraint. Here they give pilot Harriet Quimby just the right note of quiet confidence: "I hadn't grown up wishing to be a pilot, because there were no planes when...
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Marissa Moss, illus. by Andrea U'Ren. Random/Tricycle, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58246-369-8
Moss's (Sky High: The True Story of Maggie Gee) short, stirring biography of 19th-century lighthouse keeper Ida Lewis centers on Lewis's first rescue, at age 16, off the coast of Rhode Island. Lewis, who took over keeping duties at Lime Rock from...
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Marissa Moss, Author, Marissa Moss, Illustrator American Girl Publishing Inc $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58485-508-8
When she learns her new neighbor is deaf, Amelia sets to learning sign language in Amelia Lends a Hand by Marissa Moss. Rendered in the series' familiar journal format, the book also contains eight pages of perforated sign language cards. (Mar.)
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Marissa Moss, Author, Marissa Moss, Illustrator American Girl Publishing Inc $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58485-539-2
When she learns her new neighbor is deaf, Amelia sets to learning sign language in Amelia Lends a Hand by Marissa Moss. Rendered in the series' familiar journal format, the book also contains eight pages of perforated sign language cards. (Mar.)
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Marissa Moss, Author, Marissa Moss, Illustrator American Girl Publishing Inc $5.95 (38p) ISBN 978-1-58485-330-5
When her older sister, Cleo, develops a crush on a classmate, Amelia watches her sibling's personality disappear in Oh Boy, Amelia! by Marissa Moss. Before all returns to normal, Amelia's notes and drawings (in the classic marble composition book)
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Marissa Moss, Author, Marissa Moss, Illustrator American Girl Publishing Inc $5.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-58485-305-3
The spring list of American Girl Library titles boasts fun things to do for girls ages eight and up. In Marissa Moss's Madame Amelia Tells All, the now-familiar marbleized notebook opens to reveal secrets of fortune-telling, including how to do palm
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Marissa Moss, Author, Marissa Moss, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (56p) ISBN 978-0-15-202423-9
The latest installment of the Young American Voices series, Rose's Journal: The Story of a Girl in the Great Depression, by Marissa Moss, covers the ""Dirty Thirties."" Set on a Kansas farm, Rose's pink-lined pages contrast with her handwritten...
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Marissa Moss, Author, Marissa Moss, Illustrator Tricycle Press $14 (32p) ISBN 978-1-883672-18-8
Moss (Mel's Diner) designs this upbeat, first-person story to resemble a real diary; the cover bears the familiar black-and-white abstract design of a composition book, decorated with color cartoons by Amelia, the book's nine-year-old ``author.''...
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Marissa Moss, Author, Marissa Moss, Illustrator . Candlewick $15.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4407-9
Launching the Max Disaster series, Moss (the Amelia's Notebook series) again narrates through a journal, but this time with a decidedly male POV. Max, who plans to be a scientist like his parents, starts a notebook to record his inventions and...
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Marissa Moss. Abrams, $19.99 (264p) ISBN 978-1-4197-5853-9
Moss’s (America’s Tea Parties: Not One but Four!) accessible biography paints a searing portrait of Jewish physicist Lise Meitner’s (1878–1968) most famous and controversial achievement. For most of her career, Meitner worked and lived in relative...
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Marissa Moss, illus. by April Chu. Creston, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-939547-66-8
Moss (the Amelia’s Notebook series) surveys the use of premature infants as sideshow entertainment in this informative overview of pioneering pediatric history, which occurred on the Coney Island boardwalk from 1903 to 1943. To convince a highly...
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Marissa Moss. Walker Books US, $19.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1802-2
In this winning interactive comics diary by Moss (the Amelia series), sixth grader Talia Zargari, portrayed with tan skin, records her daily observations and personal thought experiments to cope with the social pitfalls of middle school. Upset by...
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