Elizabeth Sayles, Author, Pam Conrad, Author, Elizabeth Sayles, Illustrator Hyperion Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0159-6
Cleaning up is one of childhood's great trials, but the late Conrad (The Tub People) gives the subject wings and sends it on a giddy flight of imagination. Faced with a vague but stern directive from their father to make their messy living room ""loo
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Eric Beddows, Author, Pam Conrad, Author, Eric Beddows, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-023603-8
As ""yellows pirouetted into the clouds"" and the ""sky ran from black, to indigo, to blue,"" Young Rooster is sure that his ""Cot Cot Cot Cot Ca-toodle tooooooo!"" has made the dawn appear: ""I make the day. That's my Gift."" But when he is late...
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Pam Conrad, Author HarperCollins $5.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-440309-2
In PW 's words, ``Conrad is at the peak of her storytelling powers'' in this adventurous tale that ``tautly builds suspense and culminates in a scene of epiphanic intensity.'' Ages 10-up. (Apr.)
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Pam Conrad, Author HarperTrophy $5.99 (167p) ISBN 978-0-06-440206-4
A girl's abiding love for her Nebraska home is shaken with the arrival of a frail young city woman who cannot endure the harsh pioneer life. Ages 10-up. (November)
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Pam Conrad, Author HarperCollins $5.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-440354-2
Zoe's playmate is a visitor from another century. PW praised the ``surprisingly comforting tale of nurturing and forgiveness told in a direct, graceful style. This is a warmly poetic, atmospheric story shot through with bursts of fear, desperation...
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Pam Conrad, Author Laura Geringer Book $14.95 (131p) ISBN 978-0-06-027217-3
This glowing story of a girl who leaves her body and travels back through time to save her mother is a worthy sequel to the Edgar Allan Poe Award winner Stonewords. Many teens know the feeling of being captive in their bodies, wanting to burst out...
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Pam Conrad, Author HarperCollins Publishers $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-447011-7
About this tale of friendship between two teenage girls of different social backgrounds, PW stated that ``Conrad's story resonates with truth and caring.'' Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Pam Conrad, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (218p) ISBN 978-0-06-021331-2
The author of Prairie Songs and Holding Me Here has written an emotionally daring book about Darcie, 16, who is stuck with her aunt and uncle while her mother and new husband honeymoon. Darcie works at Uncle George's restaurant at the children's zoo,
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Pam Conrad, Author HarperCollins Publishers $11.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-06-021338-1
Conrad's second novel is set in the suburbs, far from the rural Nebraska of her first story, the much-praised Prairie Songs. Fourteen-year-old Robin Lewis seems to have adjusted to life with her divorced parents, shuttling between her mother's...
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Pam Conrad, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (130p) ISBN 978-0-06-021315-2
Zoe was overjoyed to find a playmate already in residence when she came to live in her grandparents' old house. The girls shared everything, toys, a playhouse, even the same name--everything except time: Zoe Louise is a visitor from another century.
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Pam Conrad, Author HarperCollins Publishers $11.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-06-021317-6
Conrad transforms a YA stereotypethe nasty, beautiful rich girlinto a multifaceted character worthy of understanding and sympathy. Told in alternating chapters, the story of Simone and Ali's friendship begins warily one summer on Dune Island. Ali's...
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Pam Conrad, Author, Darryl S. Zudeck, Illustrator, Solomon Butcher, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $17 (85p) ISBN 978-0-06-021373-2
Conrad first discovered Nebraska photographer and chronicler Solomon Butcher while researching her novel Prairie Songs ; she then ``made him up'' and he became a character in that book. Now Conrad has returned to the archives to present the real...
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Pam Conrad, Author, Solomon Butcher, Illustrator, Solomon Butcher, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $9.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-446135-1
PW praised this combination of biography and social history, commenting that Butcher's images of ``careworn, unsmiling prairie families squinting into the sun outside their `soddies' speak volumes about their hard lives.'' Ages 10-up. (Mar.)
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Pam Conrad, Author, Mary Szilagyi, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-021369-5
Molly's day begins with an expedition to a pick-your-own-strawberries farm; it ends with her placing a berry in each ear before saying goodnight, so as to make good on her father's prophecy that they will have the fruit ``coming out of our ears.''...
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Pam Conrad, Author, Barbara B. Falk, Illustrator, Barbara Falk Bustetter, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-023401-0
In a sort of Berlitz bestiary, this picture book translates the signature sounds of 13 animals and birds into diverse foreign tongues. Thus, turkeys in Israel cry ``Holderolderol,'' a raven in the Yukon exclaims ``Klawk!'' and the Tanzanian...
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Pam Conrad, Author, Patricia Lee Gauch, Editor, Susan Gallagher, Illustrator Philomel Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22904-6
Next to Gallagher's (The Selfish Giant) luminous paintings of a quaint, storybook China, this lengthy story seems contrived; the late Conrad's (The Tub People) text has an unfinished quality. She weaves in elements from the traditional legend...
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Pam Conrad, Author, Brian Selznick, Illustrator Scholastic $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-590-46523-6
Tracing the evolution of one house through the recollections of its residents, the author of Prairie Songs and My Daniel once again brings history to life while paying tribute to the birth and growth of one suburban town, Levittown, New York....
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Pam Conrad, Author, Brian Selznick, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-024262-6
Doll Face decides to throw a party for her friends, a party ``with music and dancing and Sweet Cake.'' In excitement she sets the table, instructing Plate to be still, Fork to be straight, Cup to stay empty, Spoon to stir the tea, Knife to cut Sweet
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Pam Conrad, Author, Mike Wimmer, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $13.95 (70p) ISBN 978-0-06-021319-0
Heather is perfectly happy being nineit's been her best year everand she doesn't want to turn 10. As if to prove her point, she insists on wearing the same clothes in the class picture as she did the year before. But by the end of the day, she is...
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Pam Conrad, Author, Mike Wimmer, Illustrator, Mike Wimmer, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $11.95 (55p) ISBN 978-0-06-021333-6
In a sequel to I Don't Live Here! by the acclaimed author of Prairie Songs and What I Did for Roman, Nicki accidentally makes seven red circles on her face by sticking a suction-cup arrow to her skin. She vows not to leave her house until the marks...
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Pam Conrad, Author, Peter Koeppen, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $19.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-878093-17-2
Conrad's ( Prairie Songs ; My Daniel ) typically simple style and generous character treatments bring this boy's journal of Columbus's voyage to the ``Indies'' dramatically to life. Personalities and events that stand as icons in America's history...
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Pam Conrad, Author, Peter Koeppen, Illustrator Scholastic $5.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-590-46206-8
The ship's boy of the Santa Maria keeps a diary of his adventures in Christopher Columbus's company on that famous 1492 journey. Ages 8-12. (Sept.)
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Pam Conrad, Author, Michael Wimmer, Illustrator HarperCollins $4.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-06-440377-1
The author of Prairie Songs and The Tub People tells a wise and witty tale of a girl who decides, a week before her 10th birthday, that she wants to remain nine forever. Ages 7-10. (Oct.)
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Pam Conrad, Author, Richard Cowdrey, Illustrator HarperCollins Children's Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-024718-8
Joining many other books that catalogue the ways animals put their offspring to sleep, these 10 luminously illustrated animal poems blend scientific descriptions and sounds with plenty of anthropomorphism, solace and bustle: ""`Your momma's on her...
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Pam Conrad, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14.89 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-021341-1
The Tub People resemble nothing so much as the small, rigid figures found in children's play sets--an unlikely cast of characters and yet, improbably, this story about them succeeds. Together text and illustrations spin just the sort of story a...
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Pam Conrad, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator HarperCollins $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-026028-6
A posthumous gift for fans of the late Conrad, this tale finds the Tub People all a-twitter one winter night when a mysterious visitor descends through the chimney. He pockets the worried Tub People, then removes them one by one, to become ornaments
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Pam Conrad, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-023322-8
As an author's note explains, Ahnighito is the name of the enormous meteorite now housed in New York City's Museum of Natural History, transported there from the North Pole in 1897. Conrad (The Tub People) imagines the thoughts and feelings of...
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Pam Conrad, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator HarperCollins $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443306-8
According to PW, Conrad's debut--a `simple yet sophisticated'' tale of wooden figures inhabiting a bathtub--``maintains a childlike point of view without becoming coy or condescending''; the artwork uses ``realism, color and perspective to...
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Pam Conrad, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator, Richard Egielski, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-021695-5
A sailor renowned for his skill encounters a storm that defeats even his abilities. His ship goes down, but he washes ashore on a desert island, where he lives for many years, until he accidentally starts a fire that destroys all he has but serves...
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Pam Conrad, Author, Mark English, Illustrator Laura Geringer Book $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-021514-9
When Philip and his sister, Kooch, get a puppy named Frank, crotchety Old Man Hoover next door issues a warning: ""If that dog comes anywhere near my prize rabbit, I'll load my rifle and shoot him dead."" The aged rabbit, Peter, is virtually all...
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Pat Conrad, Author, Pam Conrad, Author, Eric Beddows, Illustrator HarperTrophy $6.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-443496-6
A rooster is disappointed when he realizes the sun comes up without his help. PW said in a starred review: ""This barnyard tale is exceedingly well-crafted--filled with shining descriptions of sunrise, engaging characters, captivating dialogue and a
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