CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 1988
"The setting isn't well-realized: both ship and ports of call come across as painted backdrops; but the lively cast more than compensates."
Drew Wingate feels as if his big summer plans have been blown out of the water but finds instead that they've just changed course.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 15, 1987
"Another winner."
Here, Chelsea narrates the events in her sophomore and junior years, when she modeled herself on Ashley—lovely, rich, and apparently self-possessed.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 7, 1986
"If readers can overlook several unbelievable coincidences that help her accomplish her task, they'll enjoy this offbeat, spirited tale of a resourceful girl facing a challenge with courage and humor."
Fans of the unflappable Blossom Culp and Alexander Armsworth, her unwitting companion in the occult, will welcome this fourth book about Blossom with open arms.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 5, 1985
"Still, that's certainly preferable to a facile psychological case history; and the whole account has an air of firmly planted, strongly felt reality."
One of Peck's more serious young novels, this is the story of three friends—four, if you count Kate's tart great-grandmother Polly, who completes their daily gathering for cards and conversation.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 11, 1980
"All in all, a gorgeously romantic, implausible affair comfy as eiderdown."
Peck has unearthed one of the hoariest of chimney-corner romantic devices—the wobbly course of love and intrigue when two young things of diverse origins and temperament look exactly alike and cross destinies; and he displays it here in late-Edwardian satin, with agile prose and a straight face.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 1979
"Worse, Teresa and Barnie have no personalities either and their thoughts and conversations no vitality."
On an impulse, unhappy loner Teresa rescues brainy Barnie from a mean gang in their inner city junior high school—and the two flee to a suburban jungle that proves just as dangerous.
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