Set during some of the most decisive days of the Civil War, Crisp's (Buzzard Breath) contrived historical novel thrusts a ragtag crew on a seemingly impossible quest. Twelve-year-old Ben sets off secretly from Lancaster to find his older...
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Marty Crisp, Author . Holiday $16.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1598-4
Crisp meshes real and fictional figures in this middling tale centering on two survivors of the Titanic
shipwreck: a 12-year-old boy and the dog belonging to the head of the White Star Line, owner of the doomed liner. When he spies the Irish setter
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Marty Crisp, Author Northword Press $7.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-55971-854-7
Organized by questions phrased the way a child might pose them, Everything Dog: What Kids Really Want to Know About Dogs by Marty Crisp answers a plethora of queries, from ""Do dogs come from dinosaurs?"" to ""Do dogs cry?"" (No, the author says,
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Marty Crisp, Author Northword Press $10.95 (63p) ISBN 978-1-55971-864-6
The paper-over-board Everything Cat: What Kids Really Want to Know About Cats by Marty Crisp, a companion to the author's Everything Dog, once again uses a q&a format to reveal the truth about these often mysterious creatures. Questions range...
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Marty Crisp, Author Atheneum Books $15 (140p) ISBN 978-0-689-31964-8
Will Winkle, sixth grader and lover of all things canine, knows so much about dogs that he could ``practically write a book on the subject.'' Allowed to choose a dog of his own, he determines to find just the right pet. He puts his search on hold,...
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Marty Crisp, Author Northword Press $10.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-55971-839-4
Organized by questions phrased the way a child might pose them, Everything Dog: What Kids Really Want to Know About Dogs by Marty Crisp answers a plethora of queries, from ""Do dogs come from dinosaurs?"" to ""Do dogs cry?"" (No, the author says,
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Marty Crisp, Author Northword Press $10.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-55971-042-8
Two titles extend the paper-over-board Kids' FAQs series: Everything Dolphin: What Kids Really Want to Know About Dolphins by Marty Crisp and Everything Reptile by Cherie Winner. Like the previous titles, children pose the questions (such as ""How...
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Marty Crisp, Author Northword Press $8.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-55971-049-7
Two titles extend the paper-over-board Kids' FAQs series: Everything Dolphin: What Kids Really Want to Know About Dolphins by Marty Crisp and Everything Reptile by Cherie Winner. Like the previous titles, children pose the questions (such as ""How...
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Marty Crisp, Author, Floyd Cooper, Illustrator , illus. by Floyd Cooper. Philomel $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24296-0
Dog is known as Man's best friend, but Crisp (My Dog, Cat
) speculates that a dog became Jesus' best friend as well. Her curiosity piqued by the appearance of a white canine in various 14th- to 16th-century paintings of the Nativity, the...
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Marty Crisp, Author, Rising Moon, Author, Viv Eisner, Illustrator , illus. by Viv Eisner. Rising Moon $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-87358-789-1
Peter Petrosky MacGregor O'Toole adores snow and all its accoutrements, and wonders whether today will be his lucky day: " 'Will it get so deep that it's up to our door?' asked Peter, who lived on the 23rd floor." But about...
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