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VIVE LA PARIS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion, (2006). First edition - This book for older children, a companion to 'Sahara Special', is "narrated by Sahara's self-confident African American classmate, Paris McCray, who is trying to understand an increasingly confusing world. Paris' gentle older brother is regularly beaten up by her fifth-grade classmate; her piano teacher was once a spy and has numbers tattooed on her arm. . . . Addressing such subjects as the Holocaust, bullying, God's presence, and AIDS, the novel makes a convincing case for rose-colored glasses, dancing the can-can, and playing joyful music with your big brother." (Booklist) 209 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78270More details Price: $12.50 -
CATALYST: A Novel of Alien Contact.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, (2006.). SIGNED first edition - A boy, fleeing a bullying classmate, inadvertently makes first contact with a race of aliens who live beneath the surface of his planet. SIGNED on the title page. 171 pp. ISBN: 1892391384.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 53948More details Price: $20.00 -
CHALK GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The tenth novel of psychological suspense, featuring Kathy Mallory and set in New York City. 373 pp. ISBN: 978-0399157745.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64949More details Price: $17.50 -
JONAS MCFEE, A.T.P.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bradbury Press / Macmillan, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book for older children, which deals with realistic problems of bullying and adjusting to a new school with a bit of fantasy added. "Jonas is miserable as the new kid in his fifth-grade class until a strange girl gives him an even stranger blue marble. He discovers the ball conveys enormous power. . . The invention of a discredited foreign scientist, it has been stolen by the scientist's young daughter, who fears its power and influence over her father." 119 pp. ISBN: 0-027780414.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some bleeding from the blue cloth spine to the interior of the dj)
Book ID: 87338More details Price: $15.00 -
BEAST.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scholastic, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning Australian author's first book for older children: the story of Jamie, who is afraid of everything - but especially of the beast who haunts the night darkness, and of Brendan, who bullies him at school. "An honest , unflinching story about the power of fear and the horror of abuse." 102 pp. ISBN: 0-590471589.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39078More details Price: $15.00 -
ANGEL ROCK.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning Australian author's second novel and the first to be published in the United States. Set in a hardscrabble, back country town in 1969, this begins with two half-brothers who get lost in the wild wooded countryside around the small town of Angel Rock. Only the eldest, 13-year-old Tom, finds his way home. A story of psychological suspense. Notable for its description of the Australian countryside in all its harshness and beauty. Highly recommended. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-375-415517.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42456More details Price: $18.50