Norma Fox Maxer, Author, Norma Fox Mazer, Author Scholastic $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-43817-9
Newbery Honor author Mazer limns an engrossing true-to-life portrait of Karen, Toby and Liz--who call themselves the Katoli--sisters three years apart in age who undergo the vicissitudes of sibling rivalry. Ages 12-up. (Feb.)
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author Arthur A. Levine Books $16.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-590-13506-1
From the onset of this heart-wrenching novel, it is evident that Mazer (After the Rain) thoroughly understands and empathizes with her impoverished narrator, Em, the younger Thurkill daughter. Em eloquently expresses her belief in an elusive...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-688-13350-4
Exploring the aftermath of a family tragedy, this contemporary problem novel provides the intense psychological drama Mazer fans crave, but lacks the suspenseful edge of her After the Rain and Out of Control. The opening chapters will instantly...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author HarperTrophy $5.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-380-72289-1
MISSING PIECES Norma Fox Mazer. Avon/Flare, $4.50 ISBN 0-380-72289-5. ""Mazer demonstrates her continued mastery of YA themes and concerns with this densely packed story about a 14-year-old girl searching for the father who abandoned her in her...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16 (196p) ISBN 978-0-688-13349-8
Mazer (After the Rain; Taking Terri Mueller) demonstrates her continued mastery of YA themes and concerns with this densely packed story about a 14-year-old girl searching for the father who abandoned her in her infancy. Jessie admires her...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16 (217p) ISBN 978-0-688-10208-1
An incident of sexual harassment occurring in a high school corridor dramatically alters the lives of two of the students involved. Of the three youths accused of assaulting sharp-tongued Valerie Michon, only Rollo, a junior, experiences twinges of...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author Scholastic $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-43653-3
Mazer's newest addition to her alphabetically titled series is a sequel to B, My Name Is Bunny . Here, best friend Emily takes a star turn, as she clings to an ``impossible dream''--that her remarried, relocated father will come home for good. But...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author Scholastic $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-43655-7
Danita Merritt, 14, has the perfect family--at least her best friend, Laredo, thinks so. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt adore each other and dote on their two daughters, while Laredo rarely sees her divorced father. The picture changes when Danita meets the...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author Morrow Junior Books $16 (165p) ISBN 978-0-688-08752-4
Toni Chessmore has always felt lucky; she could not have asked for more perfect parents or for a better friend than Julie Jensen, her next-door neighbor. But during her 14th summer, Toni's opinion of herself and others begins to change after her...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author Scholastic $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-40930-8
Bunny hates her name. So when she finds herself sitting next to a boy named James at a rock concert, she tells him her name is Emily. But that's the name of Bunny's best friendhow can Bunny tell Emily what she's done? And if Emily doesn't know,...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author Harper Teen $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-380-72290-7
""Exploring the aftermath of a family tragedy, this contemporary problem novel provides the intense psychological drama Mazer fans crave,"" wrote PW. ""The strength of this novel lies in its intimate recognition of the way adolescents think and...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author Morrow/Avon $5.99 (203p) ISBN 978-0-380-75026-9
In this sensitive story of friendship, Mazer subtly breaks down barriers between rich and poor as Sarabeth Silver is finally accepted on her own terms by her wealthy friends. ``The book captures the endearingly goofy moments of youth,'' stated PW....
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author Harper Teen $16 (288p) ISBN 978-0-688-06865-3
Sarabeth Silver's mother, who cleans houses for a living, tells Sarabeth, 14, ``People like us have to look out for opportunities.'' When the tenant of trailer Two moves out, her mother is ready to move in because it falls in a better school...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author Scholastic Paperbacks $6.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-590-31990-4
After years of abuse from her mentally ill older sister, a girl gingerly takes her first steps toward liberation when her tormentor dies. PW's starred review called the novel ""heart-wrenching."" Ages 12-up. (Jan.) n
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author HarperTrophy $5.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-380-75025-2
In Mazer's eloquent, reassuring book, Rachel has one last chance to understand her dying grandfather and she learns about herself in the process. Ages 12-up. (November)
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author . HarperTeen $16.99 (284p) ISBN 978-0-06-623776-3
A stranger stalks the five sisters of a closely knit family in this taut drama. Alternating the viewpoints of the predator, who cultivates the anonymous appearance of “any respectable, ordinary man,” and the Herbert girls, who cross his...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author . Scholastic/Levine $16.99 (148p) ISBN 978-0-439-83983-9
Mazer's (What I Believe
) engaging if somewhat familiar novel centers on a 10-year-old girl's mixed feelings for her older sister. Sprig and Dakota used to play and giggle together, “but when Dakota turned twelve in August? Boom, ...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author . Harcourt $16 (169p) ISBN 978-0-15-201462-9
Mazer (When She Was Good
) traces the ungluing of a suburbanite family in this emotionally taut book narrated by middle-schooler Vicki Marnet. Vicki, who has a passion for words, uses brief monologues and multiple forms of verse (including sestinas...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author . HarperTrophy $6.99 (, $6.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-439-45812-2
"Exploring the aftermath of a family tragedy, this contemporary problem novel provides the intense psychological drama Mazer fans crave," wrote PW. "The strength of this novel lies in its intimate recognition of the way adolescents...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author . HarperTrophy $4.95 (, $4.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-06-440923-0
"This story of a 12-year-old WWII French-Jewish refugee suggests the grimness of the era without becoming too formidable for young readers to ingest," said PW. Ages 8-12. (May)
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author, Harry Mazer, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05808-6
Years ago, Amos saved Tod from drowning, and the grateful friend promised to repay the debt, somehow, sometime. Now Amos shyly requests a favor; he wants Tod to get to know beautiful Hilary and then smooth the way for an introduction to Amos. Tod...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author, Harry Mazer, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08126-8
This snappily paced tale follows four teens from disparate circumstances through their summer internship at a small-town newspaper. In focusing alternately on driven, ambitious Vicki and good-humored, macho Chris, the Mazers ( Heartbeat ; The Solid...
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author, Christine Davenier, Illustrator , illus. by Christine Davenier. Candlewick $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1384-6
That’s Daddy, doubling as lunchtime chef, asking the title question about his pigtailed preschooler daughter. “She’s not in the sink./ She’s not in the drawer,” writes YA author Mazer, in her first picture book. “S
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author, Ellen Thompson, Illustrator Harper Teen $6.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-380-71347-9
Mazer's story about high school sexual harassment is ``thought-provoking'' and ``powerful,'' said PW . Ages 12-up. ( Apr .)
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Norma Fox Mazer, Author, Mazer, Author, Jeannette Larson, Editor Harcourt Children's Books $16 (192p) ISBN 978-0-15-201468-1
This story of a WWII French-Jewish refugee suggests the grimness of the era without becoming too formidable for young readers to ingest. Indicating, but not dwelling upon her heroine's suffering, Mazer (When She Was Good) traces the 12-year-old's...
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