Nancy J. Hooper, Author, Nancy J. Hopper, Author Marcel Dekker $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-744411-7
Cassie is steeling herself for a boring summer without her best friend, Emily, who is leaving on vacation, when tall, pretty Sabrina Evans joins Cassie's class. Cassie eagerly befriends the new girl, while Sabrina manages to alienate most of the...
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Nancy J. Hopper, Author Avon Books $2.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-70270-1
Rivals become unlikely friends in this humorous mystery. Ages 812. (February)
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Nancy J. Hopper, Author Dial Books $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2329-0
Cassandra's dreams of lazing by the lake during the summer of 1944 suddenly dissolve just as she finishes eighth grade. Her mother abruptly announces that she is taking Cassandra and her younger sister, Annie Jack, from Connecticut to New York City,
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Nancy J. Hopper, Author Avon Books $2.5 (128p) ISBN 978-0-380-70538-2
In a probing story about trust and friendship, Carrie starts to date a tough boy to gain her father's attention, but almost ruins another, more important friendship in the process. Ages 12-up. (Jan.)
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Nancy J. Hopper, Author Dutton Books $12.95 (135p) ISBN 978-0-525-67186-2
Carrie has always been the apple of her widowed father's eye. When he starts dating Lise, Carrie doesn't like it. She goes out with Tony, a leather-jacketed, maho type, just to upset her father and interfere with his romance. But all Carrie manages...
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Nancy J. Hopper, Author Dial Books $13.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1420-5
Chelsea can't believe that she has to wear a dress and find a boy to accompany her to a classmate's birthday party. A budding scientist and poet, she has never fit in perfectly with her peers, and her outspoken disdain of a mixed-gender party...
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Nancy J. Hopper, Author Puffin Books $3.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-14-037063-8
A bookish student gets in over her head when an invitation requests, ``Wear your best party dress and bring a boy.'' PW observed that this ``strong story'' presents ``a hopeful message about remaining an individual.'' Ages 8-12. (July)
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Nikki Grimes, Author, Nancy J. Hopper, Author Dial Books $15.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2224-8
Hard times in 1960s Harlem do not squelch the ambitions of Grimes's (Growin'; Raining Laughter) doughty protagonist, nor inhibit Jazmin from penning her eloquent ideas. Readers will be drawn into Jazmin's neighborhood, where they meet the characters
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