Vivien Alcock, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-385-29467-6
Alcock's novels are admired here and in her native England for inventive plotting and crackling dialogue that individualize her unusual characters. Katie Seton, 11, tells the story of upheaval in her affluent home after the arrival of Rosie Martin,...
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Vivien Alcock, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (132p) ISBN 978-0-385-29559-8
Alcock's fans will be well-spooked by the strange events in this anthology of wonderfully eerie stories. In ""The Whisperer,'' a small girl who has been dead for years haunts her older brother with continuous whispers of ``Let me in, please let me...
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Vivien Alcock, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (161p) ISBN 978-0-385-29581-9
Felicity, 12, rescues a mysterious young man from drowning and brings him to her mother's boarding house. The young manwho calls himself Albert Rosscharms nearly everyone he meets. Soon local gossip has it that Mr. Ross is a famous explorer....
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Vivien Alcock, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (134p) ISBN 978-0-440-50053-7
Alcock ( The Mysterious Mr. Ross ) has written a surefire hit in this charmingly weird variation of the ``secret pet'' theme. Frankie Stein's father is a geneticist at a mysterious and heavily guarded lab; her peers torment her about her name and...
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Vivien Alcock, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (150p) ISBN 978-0-385-29981-7
Anna isn't sure how she feels about the Society of Masks, a secret club that her new friend Lindy has persuaded her to join. The members' masks and robes seem silly: Anna sees through the disguises to the boys' real identities. But Anna is lonely,...
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Vivien Alcock, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-30564-8
Along with her British compatriots Peter Dickinson, Nina Bawden and Gillian Cross, Alcock writes some of the smartest, most engrossing YA fiction around--and her latest novel is no exception. After Elinor's father is arrested for his involvement in...
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Vivien Alcock, Author Yearling Books $3.25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-40616-7
In this suspenseful novel, a game becomes a frightening contest when a new member joins the secret Society of Masks. Ages 10-14. (May)
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Vivien Alcock, Author Yearling Books $3.5 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-40916-8
In PW 's words, ``readers will find much to relish'' in this ``pulse-quickening'' tale of a girl who imagines herself an accomplice to her father's crime. Ages 10-14. (June)
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Vivien Alcock, Author Yearling Books $3.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-440-41003-4
PW's starred review commented on the ``rich and thrilling'' mythic setting of this ``strong coming-of-age story, in which the uncanny is never far off.'' Ages 10-up. (Mar.)
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Vivien Alcock, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $4.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-395-81651-6
PW called this a ""tense, funny mystery"" in which a tough-talking, long-lost daughter's arrival creates upheaval in a London family. Ages 10-14. (Aug.)
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Vivien Alcock, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-395-81660-8
Alcock's (Singer to the Sea God) flight of fancy about a preadolescent with ""special"" vision has plenty of memorable moments--beginning with Mary Frewin's shocking proclamation that, since her days in a pram, she has been visited by red-eared...
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Vivien Alcock, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15 (199p) ISBN 978-0-385-30866-3
This latest offering from the author of numerous original and quirky tales is set in a mythic world as rich and thrilling as that of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles. An earlier Alcock novel, The Stonewalkers , is delicately echoed in the story's
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Vivien Alcock, Author, Alcock, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $4.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-395-94329-8
While recuperating at her aunt's London house, an 11-year-old girl uncovers a mystery. ""Wry humor and a contemporary theme make this slightly implausible tale compelling,"" said PW. Ages 10-14. (Oct.)
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