Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WILHELM on the front fly leaf. Clean copy. Parkland Middle School is a place the students call Darkland, because no one in it does much to stop the daily harassment of kids by other kids. Three bullied seventh graders use their smarts to get the better of their tormentors by starting an unofficial e-mail forum at school in which they publicize their experiences. Unexpectedly, lots of other kids come forward to confess their similar troubles, and it becomes clear that the problem at their school is bigger than anyone knew. The school principal wants to clamp down on the operation, which she does when the trio, in their zealousness for revenge, libel a fellow student in what turns out to have been a setup. Now a new plan of attack is needed . . .
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Review slip laid-in. During the summer before her senior year, a Catholic girl runs away from her well-meaning but narrow-minded mother to live with a sociology professor she saw on television. But life there has complications, too. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovitch, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A nine-year-old girl recounts the changes in her family's life after a young Navajo girl comes to stay with them. Ex-lib with light stamping, endpapers have scarring.
NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, circa 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a chunk gone from top of spine, 365 pages. First published in 1911 this reprint is from mid-40s with Wartime notation on title page. Set on Prince Edward Island, Sara Stanley has the ability to delight and thrill listeners with her tales, many interwoven in this story. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The story of two kids who witness a violent crime they think was committed by their neighbor (an undertaker). However, since these two are always telling made-up stories nobody believes them. They have to find the evidence. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver decoration and lettering to front cover and spine. 347 pages, eight b&w plates by Taber.
Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green and Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-colored cloth stamped in black, 270 pages illustrated in b&w by Pelagie Doane. A mystery for young readers. Alice Ware spends a summer vacation away from home with the Frasier family and their daughter, Theodora. Adventures follow. Clean copy.
Softcover. Miami Beach FL, Dennis McMillan, 1st pbk., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, the second book in the authors' series of YA mysteries set at the Mohonk Mountain House in upstate New York. In 125 pages with photos throughout & a quiz, Introduction by Stephen King (who also mysteriously appears in a photo). Cover illustration by famed cartoonist Gahan Wilson, back cover by Joe Servello. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, John Day Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket cover with a faded spine, unclipped. 217 pages, Young adult novel about migrant farm workers. Minor shelf wear, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 193 pages. As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.As the Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house. In an unapologetically severe story about four boys who victimize Karen Jerome and her family, Cormier once again explores the potential for malice in all of us. The teenagers leave the Jeromes' home in ruin; Karen is assaulted and subsequently hospitalized in a coma. Not for the squeamish, Cormier's novel doesn't mince words: "The vandals shit on the floors and pissed on the walls and trashed their way through the seven-room Cape Cod cottage." Like Robert Westall ( The Machine Gunners ; Blitzcat ), Cormier surpasses most other writers by the sheer force of his words. Much more than a pulp thriller, this compelling, richly textured novel is told from several points of view, including that of the vandals themselves. Cormier illuminates even the darkest characters with humanity, so that in the end, readers see the complicated fabric of life itself.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 138 pages, b&w drawings by Susan Perl. Mild fading to dj spine, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia/NY, Lippincott , 1st, 1977, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The summer after his high school graduation, Ted meets a young woman who helps him make some decisions about his immediate future. Remainder dot on bottom edge, o
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 159 pages. Publisher's 'Library Edition' sticker across foot of spine panel. A tale of prehistoric conflict inspired by an archaeological discovery in Yorkshire. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 186 pages. Earl Pryor is the biggest thirteen-year-old anyone ever saw. He's taller than a lot of grown-ups. He's got a hairy chest. He shaves. High school kids ask him to buy them beer. Everyone thinks Earl's so tough, such a troublemaker, such a man. They come to him looking for a fight. And Earl will fight them. But he's not so tough: He loves his mom, loves his dad. Still, a man's got to take care of himself. He's got to make people respect him. If Earl's dad has taught him anything, he's taught him that. When Earl gets suspended from school for a week for fighting, he figures he'll fill up the days somehow. But a lot can happen in a week. His family is falling apart. Everything he counted on is falling apart, and Earl's still learning what it really means to be a man. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. In this witty, fast-paced sequel to Getting Even, seventh-grader Iris Bloom can handle anything, whether it's a fashion crisis or the despicable Corky Newton. What's more, she is certain she doesn't need a baby-sitter. But when a visit alone to the mall ends in a frightening near-assault, she changes her mind.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 271 page, blue cloth covers with white lettering on spine. SIGNED BY BEST on the front fly leaf. Stated first printing. A novel set in upstate New York in the days of land grants and frontier hardship. And the story of a beautiful young woman so swaggering-proud of herself and uncertain of her desire to grow to womanhood. Minor shelf wear, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An intricately woven tapestry of friendship and love follows Zazoo, who lives with her adoptive grandfather in his village in France, as she learns about the history of World War II and Vietnam through her Grand-Pierre and, with the help of Marius, the bicycle boy, and the local pharmacist, makes a startling discovery that forces her to face the past. Clean copy.