CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 1998
"While there are some brave moments and dramatic scenes, readers will lose patience with the limping narrative and obvious moral. (glossary) (Fiction. 11-13)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2005
"Powerful—and disturbing. (Fiction. YA)"
In a neighborhood where random death walks onto your front porch and kills you or your innocent little brother, Mann and Kee-lee become increasingly convinced that they'll die before reaching 17.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Dec. 1, 2007
"Teens will happily embrace this refreshingly holistic gay teen character, built on cute quirks, humor and pathos rather than farce and flamboyance. (Fiction. YA)"
Alex's passion for riding, grooming and showing horses keeps his compartmentalized life orderly and his homosexuality at bay.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 8, 2009
"It's the minute details of work with the horses that make this book sing, and horse-mad readers will snap it up. (Historical fiction. 10-14)"
Abby's father names all the male horses that come through their farm George and all the female horses Jewel, and Abby knows it's to keep the family from becoming too attached to them.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2009
"Exciting, original update of the ripping-yarns formula."
Allen (
Slaves of the Shinar, 2007) sends the 14-year-old son of Chinese immigrants into the western territories of post–Civil War America.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 4, 2010
"Another impressive book by the author of Here's How I See It—Here's How It Is (2009). (Fiction. 8-14)"
Once Dream of Night was a champion racehorse, but by the time Jess DiLima gets him he's nearly dead from starvation and pneumonia, and his thin hide is covered in scars.
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