Germany on the cusp of World War II. Hitler has risen to power, and the Jews are being taken away from their homes in the middle of the night, forced to wear yellow stars, their businesses smashed, their lives in ruins. In the middle of all this is Lilli Frankfurter, a half-Jewish girl on the cusp of adolescence, her life and family thrust into the midst of a danger she has only begun to understand. In the stunning sequel to Isabel's War, ...
In the world of children's literature, Louise Fitzhugh's [i]Harriet the Spy and [i]The Long Secret are widely recognized as epoch-making. They have been received by young readers, year after year, with excitement and love.[i] Nobody's Family is Going to Change—the story of an African American family in New York in the 1970s—shares the vigorous sense of comedy and unflinching fidelity to the real world that has ...
This book was made into a very famous film(s) – The Parent Trap (1961) starring Brian Keith, Maureen Sullivan and Hayley Mills, and the remake (1998) starring Lindsay Lohan. ...
Though to Brenda Belle Blossom's mother he is just «that boy . . . tying those beer cans to the Christmas tree,» sixteen-year-old Adam is really the son of a famous movie star who hobnobs with royalty while jetting all over the world. Smarty Brenda Belle Blossom, horrified by fuzz on her upper lip, cracks jokes to avoid the bummer of her teeny Vermont hamlet and ladylike mother. When Adam is expelled from his last boarding school, he washes ...
In a stunning new novel completed just before her death in 2013, award-winning author Lila Perl introduces us to Isabel Brandt, a French-phrase-dropping twelve-year-old New Yorker who's more interested in boys and bobbing her nose than the distant war across the Pacific—the one her parents keep reminding her to care more about. Things change when Helga, the beautiful niece of her parent's best friends, comes to live with Isab ...
“What makes ‘Written in the Stars’ striking and quite wonderful is the ease and sagacity with which Ms. Duncan writes about adolescence (at an astonishingly young authorial age) and the emotional resonance she creates with characters we will know only briefly—for such is the nature of short stories.”—Wall Street JournalAn extraordinary look at the genesis of a great writer’s caree ...
The author Norma Klein was known for her sophisticated New Yorker teenagers, parents who had a laissez-faire attitude about sex, and sex itself. Domestic Arrangements showcases Norma Klein at her best.A classic work on teenage sex and all the complications. Comparable to Forever by Judy Blume.Under option by Padma Lakshmi and her film company, Lakshmi films.Using her savvy yet curious Upper West Side teens to take on the topics of sexuality, big ...
A National Book Award nominee in 1975, Ludell is the first book in a groundbreaking trilogy about a young African American girl growing up during the 1950s in a small Georgia town. Ludell Wilson is a wisecracking bookworm and burgeoning writer who adores her best friend Ruthie Mae, her loving—but strict—grandmother, and everything about growing up. (Including her first pair of blue jeans, and her first boyfriend.)But in the sti ...
