CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 2004
"Useful for the educational setting and of interest to youngsters, teachers, and fledgling short-story writers. (Short stories. 10+)"
Divided into sections—stories set in the past, stories with a supernatural element, and stories set in the present—this collection of new and old tales from Newbery Award–winner Peck also includes his first short story, Priscilla and the Wimps, as well as commentary and advice about writing.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2003
"A rich tale full of magic, mystery, and surprise. (author's note) (Fiction. 12+)"
"Imagine an age when there were still people around who'd seen U.S. Grant with their own eyes, and men who'd voted for Lincoln."
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2001
"Not up to its promise, but good fun nonetheless. (Fiction. 10-14)"
Into the quiet, routinized farm life of 14-year-old Rosie, older sister Lottie, and younger brother Buster comes a letter from Aunt Euterpe in Chicago, inviting them to the 1893 World's Fair.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2000
"Year-round fun. (Fiction. 11-13)"
Set in 1937 during the so-called "Roosevelt recession," tight times compel Mary Alice, a Chicago girl, to move in with her grandmother, who lives in a tiny Illinois town so behind the times that it doesn't "even have a picture show."
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 1998
"Remarkable and fine. (Fiction. 9-12)"
In a novel that skillfully captures the nuances of small-town life, an elderly man reminisces about his annual trips from Chicago to his grandmother's house in rural Illinois during the Depression.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 1998
"The novel becomes something of a treatise about a generation of children who have been cast aside by their parents; with its compelling premises and Molly's fragile but tautly convincing voice, it will be seized upon by Peck's fans, but may leave them longing for more. (Fiction. 12-14)"
With a hospitalized heroin addict for a mother and facing the prospect of another new school, Molly Moberly, 12, is a stray who delivers in an abrupt and somewhat detached narrative the details of a year in her life.
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