Mary Downing Hahn, Author Harper Teen $4.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-380-77530-9
A high-school girl perseveres through a disturbing relationship; PW praised the ``realistic empathy and deft style'' of Hahn's ``taut and emotionally driven story.'' Ages 12-up. (Aug.)
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Mary Downing Hahn. Clarion, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-328-85092-8
In this spooky middle grade tale by Hahn (One for Sorrow), 12-year-old Jules is tired of being dragged from town to town with her novelist mother and her father, whose work restoring old houses keeps them on the road. Their latest move takes them to
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Mary Downing Hahn. Clarion, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-544-81809-5
A 12-year-old grapples with friendships, vengeful spirits, and the Spanish Flu epidemic in Hahn’s (Took) chilling ghost story. In 1918, WWI rages but Annie Browne is most concerned about fitting into her new school outside Baltimore, the Pearce...
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Mary Downing Hahn. Clarion, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-544-55153-4
This spooky mystery from one of the genre’s longtime virtuosos features seventh-grader Daniel and his seven-year-old sister, Erica, who face severe culture shock when their father’s job loss forces them to move from suburban Connecticut to an...
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Mary Downing Hahn. Clarion, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-544-23020-0
Ostracized for his long hair and standoffish attitude, sixth-grader Brendan Doyle takes solace in his art and his belief in the legendary Green Man, an ancient spirit who protects the forest and its inhabitants. When Brendan stumbles upon an...
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Mary Downing Hahn. Clarion, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-547-76062-9
In a gripping story all the more chilling for its roots in a real-life crime that touched Hahn's (The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall) life, two Maryland teenage girls are murdered on their way to school in 1956. The author skillfully threads together the
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author Clarion Books $13.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-89919-680-0
When Madigan was very young, her mother died of cancer; her father had walked out on their marriage long before that. Madigan has grown up at her grandmother's rooming house, and now she is a sixth grader, just like her friend Angie. They are young...
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author Clarion Books $13.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-89919-495-0
Tallahassee, named for the city in which she was born, says goodbye to her mother Liz, and Liz's latest boyfriend, at the airport. Talley, 12, is being sent to Maryland to stay with an aunt and uncle she's never met, while her freewheeling mom takes
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author Clarion Books $13.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-89919-344-1
The Sara Summer and Hahn's other books are admired as meaty, well-told stories about adolescents facing problems. Her latest is another such, narrated by 12-year-old Kathleen Foster. With her mother and three younger sisters, Kathleen has to move...
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author Clarion Books $15 (208p) ISBN 978-0-395-96394-4
Hahn's (Anna All Year Round) historical novel, set in a divided Maryland at the beginning of the Civil War, portrays an unconvincing tale of escape from slavery. The story begins with a tenuous premise: 12-year-old narrator Jesse stumbles on a...
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author HarperTrophy $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-380-72703-2
""A stylish psychological thriller... all the more gripping for its sturdy psychological underpinnings,"" said PW about this novel of a teenage girl in a remote, haunted inn who falls for a mysterious visitor. Ages 12-up. (Mar.)o
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author Clarion Books $16 (192p) ISBN 978-0-395-76477-0
As World War II rages in Europe, there are battles closer to home for sixth-grader Gordy, even after his physically and verbally abusive, alcoholic father is put behind bars. Gordy knows his family is a mess--as readers of Stepping on the Cracks...
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author . Clarion $15 (224p) ISBN 978-0-618-18190-2
Hahn (Stepping on the Cracks) crafts a hard-hitting Civil War novel narrated by a 13-year-old boy in Virginia. Haswell's father has died in the Confederate Army and Haswell's 16-year-old brother has recently enlisted, leaving Haswell with...
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author HarperCollins $5.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-380-70865-9
Hahn's captivating fantasy tells of two friends who unearth a mysterious doll in a tangled, neglected rose garden. Ages 9-12. (Apr.)
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author Clarion Books $14.95 (181p) ISBN 978-0-89919-758-6
A serious, troubling study of teenage rebellion and idealism is combined with a story about the harsh realities of the lives of the homeless and the legacy of the Vietnam War. Kelly finds herself at odds with everyone: her best friend has turned...
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author Clarion Books $15 (144p) ISBN 978-0-395-52397-1
Matt would like nothing more than to forget the corpse that he and his best friend Parker found in Indian Creek. But Parker is convinced that his mother's new boyfriend, Mr. Evans, has something to do with the dead man's death. Against his better...
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author HarperCollins $4.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-380-70500-9
In Hahn's sensitive and witty story, Talley learns that she will always love her flighty mother, even though they may never be able to live together. Ages 8-12. (April)
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author Clarion Books $16 (224p) ISBN 978-0-395-58507-8
Most WW II homefront novels are unambiguous in their approach to patriots and traitors, allies and enemies. Hahn's subtle, thought-provoking work, however, proposes the legitimacy of a variety of ethical responses to critical situations. Margaret's...
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author HarperCollins $5.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-380-71362-2
Matt discovers a corpse and is convinced that his mother's boyfriend is somehow involved; in PW 's words, ``A combination of crackling language and plenty of suspense, this fast-paced yarn is likely to appeal to even the most reluctant readers.''...
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author Harper Teen $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-380-70764-5
A 15-year-old's desire to help a homeless Vietnam vet teaches her about the devastating impact of the war. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author Clarion Books $16 (128p) ISBN 978-0-89919-848-4
After the death of her father, Ashley and her mother move to a new town to start over. Ashley doesn't mind their small, second-floor apartment, but she takes an immediate dislike to grumpy Miss Cooper, the owner of the house. Fascinated by the...
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author . Clarion $16 (182p) ISBN 978-0-618-85467-7
Ghost story veteran Hahn (Deep and Dark and Dangerous
) spins another novel filled with things that moan and creek in the night. In an old, reputedly haunted bed and breakfast in the woods of Vermont, the chandeliers swing seemingly at random. The...
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author, Diane de Groat, Illustrator Clarion Books $15 (160p) ISBN 978-0-618-03605-9
In this sequel to Anna All Year Round, set just before WWI, nine-year-old Anna is happy to spend a week at her aunt and uncle's farm in Anna on the Farm by Mary Downing Hahn, illus. by Diane de Groat. All runs smoothly until she meets Theodore, who...
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author, Diane de Groat, Illustrator Clarion Books $15 (144p) ISBN 978-0-395-86975-8
Hahn (Stepping on the Cracks) mines her mother's reminiscences of growing up in Baltimore before WWI to create this nostalgic chapter book. Though set in a bygone era of gas street lamps and horse-drawn delivery carts, these episodes in the year...
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author, Paul Hunt, Illustrator Clarion Books $16 (208p) ISBN 978-0-395-69843-3
A lonely teenage girl, an isolated inn by the ocean, a ghost, a mysterious stranger-sure, these are gothic cliches, but in Hahn's (Stepping on the Cracks) able hands, they add up to a stylish supernatural thriller. Cynda, the 16-year-old narrator,...
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Mary Downing Hahn, Author, James Cross Giblin, Editor Clarion Books $16 (144p) ISBN 978-0-395-55696-2
Tagging along on her mother's honeymoon in Spain, Felicia knows there's no love lost between herself and her new stepsiblings, Amy and Phillip. But when Grace, an exotic and self-styled ``citizen of the world,'' kidnaps the three, their differences...
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Mary Downing Hahn. Clarion, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-358-06731-3
In a striking departure from her more familiar ghost stories, Hahn (The Girl in the Locked Room) draws from Irish folklore to tell a darkly haunting tale. Mollie has grown up in a comfortable home in a village guarded by chilling superstitions....
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Mary Downing Hahn. Clarion, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-358394-08-2
Twelve-year-old Brooklynite Zoey loves spending her summers with her aunt Alice in small-town Bexhill, relishing its slow pace and the porch swing at her librarian aunt’s home. But Alice warns Zoey away from the dense forest next door, owned by...
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Mary Downing Hahn. Clarion, $17.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-3584-1441-4
A small-town murder heralds the death of childhood innocence in this character-driven thriller by Hahn (The Thirteenth Cat). Longing to shake things up during summer break (“Don’t you want to see exactly where Evansburg stops and Plattsville starts?
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