Mary Sullivan, Author . Morrow $23.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-06-056240-3
Sheila "Ship" Sooner, a 13-year-old girl born with "exceptional hearing," can hear conversations whispered behind closed doors, the flutter of other people's eyelids and even the heartbeat of her best friend and neighbor, Brian...
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Mary Sullivan, Author Zoland Books $13 (183p) ISBN 978-1-58195-025-0
Sullivan's debut novel is a memoirlike, first-person narrative of a family quickly disintegrating following the death of a child. The story of the relentlessly dysfunctional Stone family can be compared to Mary Karr's memoir The Liars' Club. However,
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Mary Sullivan. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-399-25684-4
After Cassie’s larger-than-life older brother, Sef, leaves to fight in Iraq, the seventh-grader struggles without his stabilizing influence. Cassie’s family is faltering, too: her sister rebels with a new boyfriend; her mother drinks and has...
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Mary Sullivan. Houghton Mifflin, $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-547-75936-4
Illustrator Sullivan (Field of Peace) makes a hilarious debut as an author by touring the brain of a ball-obsessed dog. The dog’s googley eyes, droopy snout, and oversize midriff provide comedy of their own, and he’s even funnier when paneled...
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Mary Sullivan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-544-47270-9
Sullivan’s Geisel Award–winning Ball got inside the mind of a ball-obsessed dog, and this equally wonderful companion book introduces a roly-poly pooch who rides a roller-coaster of emotions as he prowls, scowls, and begs his way around the house in
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Mary Sullivan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-544-79250-0
For no apparent reason, an idiosyncratic duck takes up residence on a fussy alligator’s lawn. Ignoring Duck’s insistence that “I’m nobody’s duck!”, Alligator plops Duck into a toy wagon and heads to town to find a responsible party (“You must be...
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