Vicki Grove, Author . Puffin $5.99 (, $5.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-698-11912-3
Coming of age in smalltown Missouri, a 12-year-old girl has plenty to teach and learn from the three imperfect but likeable women in her life. PW
noted the novel's "vivid details and snappy dialogue." Ages 10-14. (Nov.)
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Vicki Grove, Author Putnam Publishing Group $6.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-698-11839-3
The ill-starred pioneer family of Mary Jane Auch's Journey to Nowhere and Frozen Summer returns in The Road to Home. This installment, set in 1817, finds 13-year-old Remembrance Nye leading her younger siblings back from upstate New York to their...
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Vicki Grove, Author Putnam Publishing Group $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-399-21624-4
The closing of the meat-packing factory where T.J.'s father works is but one more piece of bad news for the people in a small Missouri town. T.J.'s parents fight so much that his father finally leaves; T.J. tries to take care of his two small...
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Vicki Grove, Author Putnam Publishing Group $14.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0-399-22430-0
At home in Milwaukee, soft-spoken Tory lives under the shadow of her vibrant, popular sister, Sara; but tables turn when the two girls spend a summer on their grandparents' Illinois farm. While Sara is bored and homesick for her friends, her older...
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Vicki Grove, Author Putnam Publishing Group $17.99 (214p) ISBN 978-0-399-23207-7
Grove (Reaching Dustin) cuts social commentary with a hint of mystery in this story set in small town Quiver, Okla., during the early '60s. Although the local junior high is not officially segregated, it remains all white until an African-American...
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Vicki Grove, Author Putnam Publishing Group $14.95 (174p) ISBN 978-0-399-22184-2
Lori isn't sure she wants to make friends with Vern, the strange new girl at school. Lori may be chubby and unpopular, but Vern is grubby and downright weird--and she doesn't even seem to know her own address. Loneliness throws the girls together,...
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Vicki Grove, Author Putnam Publishing Group $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-399-23008-0
The swamp-dwelling, shotgun-wielding Groats are the pariahs of Carly Cameron's rural Missouri community, and Carly is understandably horrified when she draws Dustin Groat as a partner for a class project on interviewing. Determined to do well on the
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Vicki Grove, Author, Kam Mak, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-399-23449-1
Coming of age in small-town Missouri, 12-year-old Destiny Capperson has plenty to learn from--and to teach to--the three imperfect but immensely likable women in her life. Their heartfelt exchanges create a tender contemporary novel, despite Grove's
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