Don Freeman, Author, Richard Peck, Author, Elizabeth Law, Editor Viking Children's Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-89328-7
Posthumously published, this ingenuous tale by the creator of Corduroy introduces another endearing, though not likely as enduring, animal character. Gregory Groundhog always feels braver when his best pal, his shadow, accompanies him. On the day...
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Don Freeman, Author, Richard Peck, Author, Don Freeman, Illustrator . Picture Puffin $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-230196-8
In what PW
called an "ingenious tale" by the creator of Corduroy
(posthumously published), a groundhog always feels braver when his best pal, his shadow, accompanies him, but the two inadvertently become separated. Ages 2-6. (Nov.)
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Richard Peck, Author Dial Books $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2291-0
Peck not only understands the fragile emotions of adolescents, he also knows what kind of characters will pique their interest. In this tender novel, he paints a richly detailed portrait of Molly, a drug-addict's daughter sent at the age of 12 to...
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Richard Peck, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (181p) ISBN 978-0-385-29779-0
A two-week family vacation in New York City becomes a trip across more than mere distance for Californian Chad. He discovers that he, his younger brother Luke and even his boy-crazy older sister Heidi have the ability to move backward in time. From...
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Richard Peck, Author Laurel Leaf Library $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-20457-2
Drew Wingate's summer cruise with his grandmother turns out to be more fun than he expected. PW said, ``Drew's rapid-fire narration is deceptively lighthearted: his glib voice proves capable of expressing a great range of emotion.'' Ages 12-up. (Oct.
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Richard Peck, Author Yearling Books $4.5 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-40378-4
PW singled out this tale of time travel for its ``superb characterization and careful historical background.'' Ages 10-14. (Dec.)
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Richard Peck, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15 (162p) ISBN 978-0-385-30500-6
After her father leaves the family, Jessica becomes numb and resentful. She scorns her mother and longs for the company of her father. At Christmas, Jessica's dream seems to come true: she is sent to Mexico to visit her father. Once there, Jessica...
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Richard Peck, Author Laurel Leaf Library $4.5 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-21213-3
This affecting novel concerns a 16-year-old girl who faces personal adversities on many fronts. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Richard Peck, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (183p) ISBN 978-0-385-30823-6
Neither Southern California brats nor ornery hicks escape the malice of this rather mean-hearted slapstick novel. When Buffie Babcock's TV producer father goes broke, he and his family say ``good-bye to all we knew and the total California...
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Richard Peck, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (161p) ISBN 978-0-385-32052-8
Fifteen-year-old Todd's dreams of a girlfriend seem on the verge of coming true when demure Laurel, a new student, becomes his kid sister Marnie's regular baby-sitter. But sweet-seeming Laurel has a strange effect on Marnie. As Peck's (Unfinished...
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Richard Peck, Author Laurel Leaf Library $3.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-21925-5
Despite the ``snide'' tone of this ``slick and compassionless'' tale of a Southern California showbiz kid uprooted to a hick town, the narrative, said PW, ``manages to be snappy, moving at a rackety gallop.'' Ages 12-up. (Apr.)q
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Richard Peck, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-50054-4
Drew isn't looking forward to spending two weeks trapped on an ocean liner with his ill-tempered sister Stephanie and Connie, the grandmother he hardly knows. But once the cruise begins, Drew is quick to change his mind. Self-assured Conniean aging...
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Richard Peck, Author Laurel Leaf Library $5.99 (161p) ISBN 978-0-440-22007-7
Fifteen-year-old Todd sets out to undo the workings of an extremist religious group; in a starred review, PW called this ""taut [and] suspenseful... a highly topical tale."" Ages 10-up. (Aug.)
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Richard Peck, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-14-038555-7
A farm girl accompanies her beauty queen friend to New York to keep her out of trouble; removed from her boarding school to stay with distant cousins in England, another girl pieces together facts about her situation and her father's real line of...
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Richard Peck, Author Dial Books $14.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1989-7
When New York City prep-schooler Josh meddles with his best friend Aaron's computer project, a dinosaur presentation becomes a wish-granting program. The boys, first seen in Peck's Lost in Cyberspace, tap into the wishes of those around them: Josh's
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Richard Peck, Author Viking Books $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-87368-5
Three middle-aged American women, childhood friends from Cape Vincent, Mo., travel to London for a vacation in Peck's effervescent fourth adult novel (after This Family of Women). With them, they carry the frustrations of unfulfilled dreams. After...
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Richard Peck, Author Dial Books $16.99 (204p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2734-2
Aspiring writers learn from voices of experience in a trio of titles. In the first, Invitations to the World: Teaching and Writing for the Young, Newbery Medalist Richard Peck (A Year Down Yonder) describes his own beginnings as a writer and how...
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Richard Peck, illus. by Kelly Murphy. Dial, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3838-6
As endearing as Peck’s Secrets at Sea, this companion novel, also set during the Victorian era and accompanied by Murphy’s carefully detailed pencil illustrations, introduces a new cast of memorable mice born and bred in London. At center stage is...
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Richard Peck. Dial, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-803-73839-3
Markedly more contemporary than many of Peck’s previous novels, this drolly narrated coming-of-age story traces milestones in Archer Magill’s life from first to sixth grade while deftly addressing a variety of social issues. The first scene—depicting
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Richard Peck, read by Michael Crouch. Listening Library, $30 ISBN 978-0-7352-8886-7
In this hilarious coming-of-age story, listeners follow Archer Magill from first grade in elementary through to middle school as puberty quickly approaches. The book recounts milestones in Archer’s life thus far and introduces readers to the male...
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Richard Peck, Author Dial Books $16.99 (148p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2290-3
Peck (Strays Like Us) first created the inimitable central figure of this novel in a previously published short story. Although the narrator, Joey, and his younger sister, Mary Alice, live in the Windy city during the reign of Al Capone and Bugs...
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Richard Peck, Author . Dial $16.99 (164p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2735-9
Without compromising his superb comedic timing and vibrant portrayals of country folk, Peck (A Long Way from Chicago; A Year Down Yonder) reaches new depth with this Civil War–era novel.Structured as a framed story, the book begins in 1916,...
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Richard Peck, Author . Dial $16.99 (190p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2736-6
"If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it," begins Peck's (A Year Down Under
) latest rural comedy, set in the "backwoodsiest corner of Indiana." Just before school starts in 1904, a "miracle"
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Richard Peck, Author . Puffin $6.99 (164p) ISBN 978-0-14-240310-5
In our Best Books citation, PW
wrote, "The author crafts his characters impeccably and threads together their fates in surprising ways that shed light on the complicated events of the Civil War." Ages 10-up. (Apr.)
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Richard Peck, Author . Dial $16.99 (145p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3080-9
Once again, Peck (The Teacher's Funeral
) combines warmth, humor and local color to create a vibrant rendering of small-town America. Set in 1914, an era when women hobbled their skirts, and automobiles with "an electric self-starter"...
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Richard Peck, Author . Dial $16.99 (148p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3081-6
Peck (A Year Down Yonder
) concocts another delicious mixture of humor, warmth and local color in this period piece, which describes America during WWII through the eyes of a Midwestern boy, Davy Bowman. The 1940s are a time of sacrifice for the...
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Richard Peck, Author . Dial $16.99 (164p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3082-3
The type of down-home humor and vibrant characterizations Peck fans have come to adore re-emerge in full as Peck resurrects Mrs. Dowdel, the irrepressible, self-sufficient grandmother featured in A Year Down Yonder
and A Long Way from Chicago
. Set
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Richard Peck, Author . Puffin $5.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-250034-7
"Peck hilariously relates what happens when three farm children take on the 1893 Chicago World's Fair," wrote PW
in a starred review. "The unforgettable characters, cunning dialogue and fast-paced action will keep readers of all...
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Richard Peck, Dial, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3454-8
Peck never writes a book that is less than a page-turner, and this paranormal horror story captures the extremes of joy and dread, belonging and ostracism that are the core of the high school experience. Fifteen-year-old Kerry Williamson is new at...
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Richard Peck, Author Puffin Books $6.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-037856-6
Two sixth graders create time-travel mayhem with a computer. In PW's words, ""This clever caper doesn't miss a beat."" Ages 10-14. (Sept.)
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Richard Peck, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-038671-4
In this comic mystery, set in the Midwest in 1913, the ghost of a drowned girl warns a teenage boy of impending tragedy. Exploding steamships and burning bridges give the action a period flavor. Ages 8-12. (Sept.)
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Richard Peck, Author Dial Books $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2998-8
Two new stories pair with 11 previously published tales in Richard Peck's Past Perfect, Present Tense: New and Collected Stories, including ""Priscilla and the Wimps"" and ""The Special Powers of Blossom Culp."" However, it is Peck's...
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Richard Peck, Author Laurel Leaf Library $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-97339-3
Buck, Trav and Kate are inseparable friends during junior and senior high school, until Trav hangs himself at age 16. Parents and school boards accuse each other of irresponsibility in the matter; Buck's father and Kate's great-grandmother come...
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Richard Peck, Author Yearling Books $3.25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-42154-2
The further adventures of the early 20th century's most popular telepath. Ages 10-up. (June)
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Richard Peck, Author Yearling Books $3.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-40676-1
Contacted by the spirit of an ancient Egyptian princess, Peck's feisty heroine Blossom finds herself hurtled into a world of curses, tombs and a missing mummy. Ages 10-up. (July)
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Richard Peck, Author, B. Steadman, Author Dial Books $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1931-6
Amiable characters, fleet pacing and witty, in-the-know narration will keep even the non-bookish interested in this semi-fantastic adventure. Sixth-grader Josh, from an upscale Manhattan home, gets mixed up in his best friend Aaron's experiments...
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Richard Peck, Author, Don Freeman, Illustrator . Dial $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2516-4
After spinning two yarns about city kids having madcap adventures in the country (A Long Way From Chicago; A Year Down Yonder), Peck plays the flip side here, hilariously relating what happens when three farm children take on the 1893 Chicago World&#
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Richard Peck, Author, Don Freeman, Illustrator Dial Books $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2904-9
Richard Peck's only picture book, Monster Night at Grandma's House (1977), illus. by Don Freeman, appears here with an author's note recounting the volume's genesis. This tale of a boy's fearful night at Grandma's house unfolds through a lengthy
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Richard Peck, Author, Don Freeman, Illustrator, Steve Cieslawski, Illustrator Dial Books for Young Readers $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2518-8
In this hilarious and poignant sequel to A Long Way to Chicago, Peck once again shows that country life is anything but boring. Chicago-bred Mary Alice (who has previously weathered annual week-long visits with Grandma Dowdel) has been sentenced to...
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Richard Peck, Author, Don Freeman, Illustrator, Richard Peck, Illustrator . Puffin $5.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-14-230070-1
In this Newbery Honor book, Chicago-bred Mary Alice has been sentenced to a year-long stay in rural Illinois with her irrepressible, rough and gruff grandmother. Soon, however, she becomes Grandma's partner in crime, helping to carry out...
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Richard Peck, illus. by Kelly Murphy. Dial, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3455-5
Newbery Medalist Peck’s (A Year Down Yonder) dry wit and gentle jabs at social mannerisms appear in full force in this charming tale of a 19th-century mouse family traveling abroad. The story begins when house-mouse Helena and her younger siblings...
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