Sara Pennypacker. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $15.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-196420-6
Two dissimilar girls forge a genuine friendship under strenuous circumstances in Pennypacker’s memorable, tense novel. The story unfolds in the fresh, credible voice of 11-year-old Stella, who’s been taken from her unstable single mother and sent to
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Sara Pennypacker, Author, Marla Frazee, Illustrator , illus. by Marla Frazee. Hyperion $14.99 (131p) ISBN 978-0-7868-3882-0
I have had not so good of a week," begins the irrepressible narrator of this winning caper. Pennypacker (Stuart's Cape
) then takes readers straight through that week, making clear that Clementine has an unfailing nose for trouble and a...
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Sara Pennypacker, illus. by Marla Frazee. Disney-Hyperion, $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4847-0152-2
Pennypacker shifts attention from Clementine to one of the popular character’s fourth-grade classmates, science-loving Waylon Zakowski, in this first book in a spin-off series. Through Waylon’s rational perspective, Pennypacker offers smart insights
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Sara Pennypacker, Author, Petra Mathers, Illustrator , illus. by Petra Mathers. Scholastic/Orchard $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-51740-9
In this très romantique
tale, whose misty coastal setting suggests Maine or Nova Scotia, fisherman-rat Pierre longs to express his hidden feelings to Catherine, a slim gray rabbit. Pierre sees her painting pictures and teaching ballet in her
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Sara Pennypacker, illus. by Jon Klassen. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-237701-2
Peter found Pax, a fox, when he was an orphaned kit, and he has kept him as a pet since his mother’s sudden death, five years earlier. Now Peter’s stern father is bound for an unspecified war—one fought at least partly on domestic soil—forcing 12-yea
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Sara Pennypacker, illus. by Daniel Salmieri. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-219856-3
Are the Dullards worthy successors to Allard and Marshall’s Stupids? Not quite. The Stupids are all exuberantly stupid, whereas only the Dullard parents are dull (and rather resolutely so); their children are another matter. As the story opens,...
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Sara Pennypacker, Author, Mary Jane Auch, Illustrator Holiday House $14.95 (149p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1123-8
Pennypacker makes a winning debut with this witty, quixotic novel that opens with a portentous prologue. Just before he is killed by a bus, a scientist discovers ``a layer of pure knowledge--a sort of smart soup,'' above the clouds atop Mount...
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Sara Pennypacker, Author, Martin Matje, Illustrator , illus. by Martin Matje. Scholastic/Orchard $15.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-439-30180-0
Pennypacker's (Dumbstruck) winsomely warped tale introduces eight-year-old, woe-is-me Stuart, whose family has just moved to a new town. The boy feels anxious about many things, including his new house ("What if there were man-eating spiders
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Sara Pennypacker, Author, Martin Matje, Illustrator , illus. by Martin Matje. Scholastic $5.99 (55p) ISBN 978-0-439-30181-7
"This winsomely warped tale introduces eight-year-old, woe-is-me Stuart, whose family has just moved to a new home. Matje's pen-and-ink artwork amplifies the quirky humor," PW
said. Ages 4-8. (Dec.)
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Sara Pennypacker, Author, Martin Matje, Illustrator , illus. by Martin Matje. Scholastic/Little Apple $4.99 (55p) ISBN 978-0-439-30183-1
"The worrywart hero of Stuart's Cape
faces his first day of classes in a new town. Luckily, his magic cape will help him out again in this wryly funny mix of the real and the magical, enhanced by the late Matje's quirky line art,"...
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Sara Pennypacker, Author, Martin Matje, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (55p) ISBN 978-0-439-30182-4
The worrywart hero of Stuart's Cape faces his first day of classes in a new town in Stuart Goes to School by Sara Pennypacker, illus. by Martin Matje. What if Stuart forgets everything he learned in second grade? What if he can't find the ...
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Sara Pennypacker, Author, Yoko Tanaka, Illustrator , illus. by Yoko Tanaka. Disney-Hyperion $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1187-0
The so-called Sparrow War, declared by Mao in 1958, furnishes the basis for this grim story. Deciding that sparrows are eating too much grain, “our Leader” orders his people to drive them away, and Ming-Li’s whole village turns out
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Sara Pennypacker. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-269895-7
When Ware’s grandmother falls and breaks her hip, the idle summer that the relentlessly scheduled 11-and-a-half-year-old was looking forward to is canceled. His parents make last-minute arrangements for him to attend a community center camp, instead,
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Sara Pennypacker, illus. by Matthew Cordell. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $19.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-311442-5
Thoughtful Leeva Thornblossom, who’s “somewhere between eight and nine,” lives a life of servitude to her dreadful parents. Leeva desires to attend school, but her fame-absorbed mother, the town’s mayor, and her money-obsessed father, its treasurer,
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