Polly Horvath, Author Sunburst $7.95 (138p) ISBN 978-0-374-48367-8
An influx of circus families into a staid small town is the premise of this ""rollicking ode to silliness,"" said PW; ""Horvath remains a master of the middle-grade comedy."" Ages 8-12. (Mar.)
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Polly Horvath. Holiday House/Ferguson, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4028-3
Trekking to school only to realize it’s Christmas Day, 10-year-old Rupert Brown, part of a large and impoverished family, finds himself in the “very rich” part of Steeleville, Ohio. After Rupert faints on the lawn of Turgid Rivers, “the richest boy...
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Polly Horvath. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-30452-2
The witty voice of 12-year-old Franny drives this historical adventure, set during WWII in the coastal town of Sooke in British Columbia. Adopted through a “series of mistakes,” aspiring writer Franny lives with a sculptor named Sina and her husband,
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Polly Horvath. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-86970-9
Primrose Squab, the star of Horvath's Newbery Honor title Everything on a Waffle (2001), returns in this delightful sequel, chronicling the latest goings-on
in her British Columbian fishing village. Now 12 and happily reunited with her parents,...
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Polly Horvath, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-38308-4
How many circus families can a small town tolerate? That's the ostensible premise for this rollicking ode to silliness, starring Ivy, a disheveled fifth-grade smart-aleck, and her new friend Alfred Halibut, whose father has just retired from a...
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Polly Horvath, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (128p) ISBN 978-0-374-32845-0
Horvath (An Occasional Cow) returns with another off-center, perpetually surprising comic novel, this one set during the Depression. The Grunt family is a motley crew; and its one bright light is daughter Betty, whose intellectual tendencies lead...
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Polly Horvath, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $14 (134p) ISBN 978-0-374-35530-2
There is rarely a dull moment in the Hemple household, which consists of fifth-grader Hortense, her older sister Letitia, their two nutty parents and Aunt Kate, a mystery writer. Life becomes even more topsy-turvy, however, when Mrs. Hemple...
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Polly Horvath, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $5.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-47991-6
When the baby-sitter cancels at the last minute, Aunt Sally fills in and shares plenty of tall tales in this National Book Award finalist, about which PW said, ""Horvath's dry humor runs like a current through the book, sweeping readers along in the
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Polly Horvath, Author . FSG $16 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-39956-6
Unruly, unpredictable and utterly compelling, Horvath's newest is even more startling than her Everything on a Waffle—it's just as lunatic, but the humor is both darker and more confident. Ratchet, a 13-year-old whose upbringing has...
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Polly Horvath, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $17.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-32236-6
Horvath (The Trolls) delivers another hilariously puckish read with this tale of a (possibly) orphaned girl from a small Canadian fishing village. Eleven-year-old Primrose Squarp refuses to attend the memorial service for her parents after they...
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Polly Horvath, Author . Random/Schwartz & Wade $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-86110-9
This poignant sequel to Horvath's My One Hundred Adventures
continues to trace the physical and emotional journeys of Jane's unconventional family. The story begins in Saskatchewan, where Jane's new stepfather, Ned, has taken a...
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Polly Horvath, Author . Random/Schwartz & Wade $16.99 (260p) ISBN 978-0-375-84582-6
With its introspective mood and measured pace, this quietly captivating novel marks a new course for National Book Award–winner Horvath (The Canning Season
). Newly restless with the comfortable cadences of her family’s daily routine,...
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Polly Horvath, Author . FSG $17 (261p) ISBN 978-0-374-31553-5
The National Book Award–winning author of The Canning Season
reprises many of her trademark themes in a novel even more idiosyncratic than its predecessors. Meline, the first of several narrators, begins the story just after a social worker...
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Polly Horvath, Author . FSG/Sunburst $6.95 (195p) ISBN 978-0-374-41042-1
In our Best Books citation, PW
wrote, "Unpredictable and compelling, this outrageous but openhearted novel involves a 13-year-old girl sent to a remote bear-infested region in Maine to live with distant nonagenarian twin cousins." Ages 12-u
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Polly Horvath, Author . FSG $16 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-38070-0
Horvath (The Canning Season
) possesses the unique ability to make extraordinary events (such as brushes with death) appear perfectly ordinary while extracting something profound from occurrences as run-of-the-mill as a jaunt to the bookstore. In...
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Polly Horvath, Author . FSG/Sunburst $5.95 (150p) ISBN 978-0-374-42208-0
Even after her parents disappear at sea, an 11-year-old girl is convinced that they are still alive. As she is shuffled from household to household, the heroine delivers a "lively recital of her misadventures," PW
wrote in a starred review.
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Polly Horvath, Author . FSG/Sunburst $5.95 (151p) ISBN 978-0-374-42879-2
In a starred review, PW
wrote, "Horvath returns with another off-center, perpetually surprising comic novel," this one set in the Depression and starring the Grunt family. Ages 10-up. (Apr.)
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Polly Horvath, read by the author. Listening Library, unabridged, four CDs, 4.5 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-0-307-94263-0
In Horvath’s quirky chapter book, when fifth-grader Madeline’s parents are kidnapped by conniving foxes, she enlists Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—who decide to become detectives in part because they get to wear fedoras—to track them down. Horvath, who also...
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Polly Horvath, illus. by Sophie Blackall. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-86755-2
Eccentrics of multiple species converge in an adventure from Horvath (Northward to the Moon) in which the boundaries between the human and animal worlds become alternately fluid and impenetrable. On Hornby Island, off Vancouver, foxes drive cars,...
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Polly Horvath, Author, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator , illus. by Marylin Hafner. FSG $16 (179p) ISBN 978-0-374-35817-4
Following her National Book Award–winning dark comedy The Canning Season
, Horvath reprises the unalloyed giddiness of Everything on a Waffle
—and ups the ante with some outrageous, Pirandello-like flourishes. Seemingly dire problems...
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Polly Horvath, read by Kathleen McInerney. Listening Library, unabridged, five CDs, 5.75 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-0-449-01412-7
In this sequel to the Newbery Honor book Everything on a Waffle, young Primrose’s peaceful life in the tiny town of Coal Harbor in British Columbia is interrupted by a series of events both positive and negative, including the arrival of Ked, a...
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Polly Horvath, Author, Gioia Fiammenghi, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $5.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-45573-6
``In this flip and funny view of life in Iowa,'' said PW , ``the spirit of this anything-goes comedy is good-natured fun. The illustrations are as exaggerated and comic as the story itself.'' Ages 8-12. (Apr.)
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Polly Horvath, Author, Gioia Fiammenghi, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $13.95 (131p) ISBN 978-0-374-35559-3
Horvath's first novel is a flip and funny view of life in Iowa. Imogene, a New York City girl whose summer camp has just burned to the ground, is astonished when her parents decide to send her to her relatives' home in the Midwest. Imogene knows she
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Polly Horvath. Holiday House/Ferguson, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4785-5
Readers who have grown to love Newbery Honoree Horvath’s (Everything on a Waffle) slightly quirky characters and unique situations will not be disappointed by this suspenseful story of four orphaned sisters in Borneo, who are in a pickle after their
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Polly Horvath. Holiday House/Ferguson, $18.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5295-8
In this character-focused sequel to Pine Island Home by Horvath, the orphaned McCready sisters have just begun adjusting to their life on British Columbia’s Pine Island with new guardian Al. Al mostly leaves Charlie, Fiona, Marlin, and Natasha to...
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Polly Horvath. Holiday House/Ferguson, $18.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-823455-67-6
Essie was raised in secret by four librarians after being discovered as a baby in the children’s department of an Indiana library. Fearing kidnapping charges,
the quartet devise a system to keep Essie in the building, unbeknownst to the...
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Polly Horvath, illus. by Boris Kulikov. Holiday House/Ferguson, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4987-3
This dry comedy stars a child who doesn’t smile no matter what his parents do. “Nice people,” Ernest reflects as an infant, looking up at his relations. “What a good family to be born into. The only thing that would make it better would be some...
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