Willo Davis Roberts, Author . S&S $16 (240p) ISBN 978-0-689-81671-0
Roberts's (Pawns) mystery novel generates suspense, but, ultimately, too many unanswered questions will leave readers unsatisfied. Eight months after 14-year-old narrator Nikki's mother dies, her father marries Crystal, a younger woman. On a
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $4.99 (137p) ISBN 978-0-689-81393-1
Joey Bishop witnesses a kidnapping and comes to regret his reputation for making up stories. Later, when he is kidnapped himself, Joey must rely on his own wits to escape the culprits. Ages 8-12. (Dec.)
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author Atheneum Books $16.95 (139p) ISBN 978-0-689-85075-2
The late Roberts's final book does not seem up to her previous high standards, yet it is a pageturner nonetheless. Eleven-year-old Mandy, part of a large and busy family, is invited by her various older siblings to come along with each of them and...
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author Atheneum Books $16 (216p) ISBN 978-0-689-31551-0
Seventeen-year-old Nick Corelli enters a world of exciting drama when a man falls from an overpass and crashes onto his car. Although the incident is ruled suicide, Nick is haunted by the terrified expression on the victim's face, and is convinced...
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author Atheneum Books $14.95 (187p) ISBN 978-0-689-31397-4
Megan and her brother never thought about their tumbleweed life-style; Mother is on the go, always looking for a better job. But this time their mother packs them up without allowing Megan to tell her best friend. Megan and Sandy are worried; their...
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author Atheneum Books $16 (190p) ISBN 978-0-689-31316-5
With this coping-with-diabetes novel, Roberts sets out mainly to provide information, since she herself is a recently diagnosed diabetic. Still, her fictional format works smoothly. Eleven-year-old Amy wonders what's wrongshe's ravenous, can't get...
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author Atheneum Books $15 (169p) ISBN 978-0-689-31438-4
When cousins Gracie, Charlie and Ed die are invited to fly to San Francisco to visit their Aunt Molly, Gracie's mother decides they may go, musing ``What could go wrong?'' If only she had known about the man in the Ha waiian shirt carrying a...
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author . S&S/Aladdin $4.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-689-84689-2
When their mother disappears, two brothers decide to investigate some suspicious going-on at an abandoned amusement park. PW
said, "The clever sleuthing and intriguing setting will make readers want to ride this one to the finish." Ages 8-1
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $3.95 (218p) ISBN 978-0-689-71378-1
Small-town life is enlivened for Danny and his homely mutt Leroy by the fact that his grandfather seems to be always in the center of every catastrophe. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author Atheneum Books $16 (192p) ISBN 978-0-689-31692-0
Once again Roberts ( The Magic Book ; Nightmare ) has written an enticing, suspenseful mystery for young readers. Rick, 11, knows his mother did not abandon him and his younger brother Kenny, even if the police do not believe them. Rick had seen her
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author Simon Pulse $4.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-02-044938-6
When a body hurtles from an overpass onto Nick's car, the 17-year-old becomes entangled in a web of intrigue and danger. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $3.95 (124p) ISBN 978-0-689-71577-8
This engrossing, up-to-date mystery, impelled by a Great Dane with a nose for mischief, features a boy who uncovers a pirated tape cassette seam. Ages 8-12. (Aug.)
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author Atheneum Books $16 (164p) ISBN 978-0-689-31793-4
Since David's father is going to be on the road this summer, and his mother will be working in Hawaii, David is sent to his grandmother's. The 11-year-old can't imagine staying with her--``it would be like going to live with a stranger''--in a...
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $4.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-689-80657-5
An ordinary sitting job turns into a nightmare for 13-year-old Darcy when kidnappers invade the house and carry off the children; PW found this a mystery characterized by ""electrifying suspense."" Ages 8-12. (Feb.)
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author Atheneum Books $16 (160p) ISBN 978-0-689-81668-0
Left all alone after her mother's death from cancer and her father's subsequent suicide, 14-year-old Teddi is happy to have found a home with her grandmotherly next-door neighbor, Mamie, who is herself recovering from her son Ricky's recent death in
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author, Leslie Morrill, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $3.95 (125p) ISBN 978-0-689-71602-7
This warm-hearted story concerns a puppy who appears out of nowhere to delight Eddie and his fellow inhabitants of the Riverpark Children's Home. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)
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Willo Davis Roberts, Author, Davis, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $4.5 (160p) ISBN 978-0-689-81167-8
Eleven-year-old Steffi sniffs out a mystery at the trailer park run by her grandfather in a remote part of northern Michigan. Ages 10-14. (Oct.)
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