Todd Strasser, Author Simon Pulse $4.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-689-82074-8
Formerly titled Girl Gives Birth to Own Prom Date, this companion novel to How I Changed My Life follows Nicole, who plans to shape Chase into the perfect prom escort after she's jilted by her ideal Brad. Ages 12-up. (June)
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Todd Strasser. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9709-1
Strasser (No Place) again tackles a difficult contemporary issue, focusing on Jake, a young, wounded war hero returning home from an unspecified war “over there” with heavily conflicted feelings. An idealistic high school student from a proud...
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Todd Strasser. Candlewick, $18.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6901-0
Equal parts Moby-Dick retelling, environmental cautionary tale, and coming-of-age story, Strasser’s (Fallout) fantastical SF epic blends disparate pieces into a harmonious whole. The saga begins with 17-year-old Ishmael setting off from a ravaged,...
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Todd Strasser. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4424-5721-8
Strasser tackles unexpected homelessness among the middle class in this affecting novel about Dan, a high school senior and promising baseball pitcher whose family suffers a slow slide from a comfortable life to being taken in by relatives and...
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Todd Strasser. Candlewick, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5534-1
Strasser (Kill You Last) brings readers to the 1960s Long Island of his youth, with one crucial difference: in this story, the Cuban Missile Crisis leads Russia to bomb the U.S. The plot alternates between two threads set before and after the bomb...
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Todd Strasser, Author Putnam Publishing Group $15.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-399-23134-6
Strasser (Kidnap Kids; Help! I'm Trapped in Obedience School) covers all the bases in his latest middle-grade caper, whose winning elements include fully formed characters, snappy, credible dialogue and a quick-moving plot that tackles real-life...
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Todd Strasser, Author Scholastic $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-46966-1
Strasser's ( Friends Till the End ) Lifeguards series gets off to a slick start with this story of several teenage lifeguards in the summer resort town of Far Hampton. Sharing lifeguard duty are Jess Sloat (she has ``straight, sun-bleached blond...
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Todd Strasser, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-312-01427-8
Financial planner Stuart Miller, the hero of this enjoyable yuppie novel, has a charming wife with a career of her own, a beautiful baby daughter and a co-op apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. At the same time, he has problems: his wifeadmits
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Todd Strasser, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16 (128p) ISBN 978-0-689-81112-8
Like Virginia Walter in Making Up Megaboy, Strasser (How I Changed My Life) explores the psyche of adolescents who use handguns to violent ends. Unfortunately, the format used here detracts from the central drama--10th-graders Gary Searle and...
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Todd Strasser, Author Simon Pulse $4.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-671-03626-3
This lively launch title for a series of the same name introduces a punk Mary Poppins with spiky, purple hair, gold hoops through an eyebrow and nostril, tattoos on her arms and more than a few tricks up the short sleeves of her tight black T-shirt.
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Todd Strasser, Author Little Apple $3.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-590-97803-3
Jake Sherman trades bodies with a famous actor in this series addition. Ages 9-12. (Jan.)
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Todd Strasser, Author . S&S/Simon Pulse $4.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-689-84893-3
The author explores the psyche of adolescents who use handguns to violent ends, as two 10th-graders hold their classmates hostage. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Todd Strasser, Author Simon Pulse $4.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-689-80895-1
This story of a ""wallflower/ football hero/ prom queen triangle... holds appeal to readers of both sexes,"" said PW, adding that ""Strasser's acknowledgment of enduring truths becomes all the more palatable for being so engagingly presented."" Ages
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Todd Strasser, Author Laurel Leaf Library $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-20881-5
Buried treasure and treasure-hunting are the subjects of this adventure yarn about a 17-year-old boy and his father who persevere in their quest for a sunken galleon off the Florida Keys. Ages 12-up. (May)
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Todd Strasser, Author Delacorte Press $14.95 (178p) ISBN 978-0-440-50061-2
Matt and his best friend Bobby attend a party at Chris's house. Everyone is drinking, and when Bobby invites Matt to drive to a ski house, Matt feels nauseous and refuses. Bobby, Chris, Jason and two girls take Chris's truck and drive several miles...
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Todd Strasser, Author . Simon & Schuster $16.99 (222p) ISBN 978-1-4169-2523-1
In this superficially compelling but heavy-handed book about gang culture, narrator DeShawn faces tough circumstances and limited choices. Readers first meet DeShawn as a smart 12-year-old with potential; four years later, he is a gang member in...
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Todd Strasser, Author . SimonPulse $8.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4169-3533-9
Kate’s mother is moving out, her father’s latest girlfriend is pregnant and a rival mob family is threatening the “territory” of her father’s crime family, in the first title in Strasser’s (Boot Camp
) Mob...
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Todd Strasser, Author . S&S $15.99 (235p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0848-7
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n his latest novel, Strasser (Can't Get There from Here
) delivers an indictment of boot camps used to control unruly teenagers. Following a middle-of-night abduction, 15-year-old Garrett Durrell finds himself being driven to an unknown...
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Todd Strasser, Author . S&S $15.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-689-84169-9
Strasser's (Give a Boy a Gun
) largely bleak novel centers on a group of homeless teens attempting to survive on the streets of New York City during a frigid winter. Several don't make it, victims of alcohol poisoning, strangulation or...
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Todd Strasser, Author . Holiday $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1394-2
In this convincing, crisply written novel, Strasser (Give a Boy a Gun
) tackles head-on a very real middle-school predicament—the price one can be tempted to pay for popularity. Referring to herself throughout in the second person, narrator...
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Todd Strasser, Author, Patent, Author Holiday House $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1278-5
Engaging characters and credible dialogue securely anchor an episodic plot in this affecting story. Twelve-year-old Kelly and eight-year-old Sasha miss their recently deceased father, but he's been such an involved, hands-on dad that his spirit...
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Todd Strasser, Author, Todd Strasser, Illustrator, Tood Strasser, Author . Putnam $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-399-23135-3
As he did in Con-Fidence, Strasser creates a protagonist who narrates in a second-person voice, once again lending the novel an immediacy and involving readers directly in the action. While Martin's parents take a month-long business trip to...
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Todd Strasser, Author, Craig Phillips, Illustrator , illus. by Craig Phillips. Simon Pulse $6.99 (198p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0581-3
This first installment in a planned trilogy about cars, girls and race by veteran author Strasser (Give a Boy a Gun
) introduces 16-year old Kennin Burnett. He has moved to Las Vegas from California with his older sister to be near their surviving...
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Todd Strasser, Author, Michael Milton, Author Little Simon $16 (256p) ISBN 978-0-671-88415-4
Aside from its jacket illustration of a pensive girl, this tautly written novel, alternately narrated by a sidelined jock and the pudgy introvert who has a crush on him, holds appeal to readers of both sexes. Benched by a football injury, high...
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Todd Strasser. Delacorte, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-593-17365-7
Through a grant, “Extra Credit” Caleb Arnett has secured top-of-the-line gaming computers for Ironville Middle School, a largely white institution whose football team was cut due to funding, and he’s now one of the inaugural members of the school’s...
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