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Joan Bauer is one of the most popular young adult novelists today. Following an introduction to Bauer’s work, and a biographical chapter, this volume examines each novel by breaking it…
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Joan Bauer
Six acclaimed and award-winning novels for young adults by Newbery Honor-winning author Joan Bauer are now reissued in these new paperback editions.
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Newly orphaned and living with the half sister she hardly knows, twelve-year-old Olive rediscovers her hope when she starts training a guide dog puppy.
Hope is a 16-year-old girl, living a nomadic lifestyle with her aunt Addie. Before she leaves, Hope scribbles ‘Hope Was Here’ onto the menu board - it’s become her motto…
Jenna has a holiday job in a shoe shop and finds that she can sell anybody anything. When the company president, Madeline Gladstone, asks Jenna to drive her across the…
The Newbery Honor author pens this companion to her New York Times bestseller, Rules of the Road. Here she tells a funny and poignant story about honesty, self-esteem, the demands…
Size matters, but six foot three seventh-grader Tree needs convincing. Newbery Honor-winning author Bauer’s story is packed with memorable characters and her trademark humor about finding purpose in tough times…
High-school newspaper reporter Hildy Biddle isn’t content to just cover school issues. She’s drawn to the town’s big story–the haunted old Ludlow house. Hildy’s efforts to find out who is…
From the author of the Newbery Honor winner Hope Was Here comes a touching story of a young girl dealing with homelessness. With the help of a rescue dog and…
A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love.
Feeling scared and powerless when her father’s anger escalates and her parents separate, twelve-year-old Anna spends the summer with her grandmother and decides to make a difference when she sees…
Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her…
Sixteen-year-old Ellie Morgan’s life would be almost perfect if she could just get her potentially prize-winning pumpkin to put on about 200 pounds–and if she could lose 20 herself. Ellie…
This Newbery Honor Book and ALA Notable Book is now in paperback. After moving to Wisconsin to run a diner with her aunt, 16-year-old Hope finds herself involved in the…
Originally published in 1996 by Delacorte Press.
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Joan E Bauer
This collection was largely inspired by the words of documentary photographer Robert Frank, It is important to see what is invisible to others.
In Fig Season, the poet Joan E. Bauer explores what it has meant to her to be Italian American. She mingles stories about her own quirky family with portraits of…
A multimedia meditation on the many meanings of the ocean across history
This volume closely follows the development of Joan Jonas’ (born 1936) multiformat project Moving off the Land. The…
This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Joan Jonas: They Come to Us without a Word, United States Pavilion, organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center for…
Judith Stamper Bauer,Joan Ross Keyes
Stories based on The Oxford Picture Dictionary for Kids enhance children’s vocabulary and reading skills.
This is a festschrift for Katherine Nelson, an NYU professor who was a pioneer in infant perception and memory. The mediated mind is a term coined by Dr. Nelson and…
