Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Clarion Book
Keywords: honor, book, newbery, buckminster, bright, lizzie
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-05-24
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0618439293
ISBN-13: 9780618439294

It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg, Maine. No one in town will let him forget that he’s a minister’s son, even if he doesn’t act like one. But then he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a smart and sassy girl from a poor nearby island community founded by former slaves. Despite his father’s-and the town’s-disapproval of their friendship, Turner spends time with Lizzie, and it opens up a whole new world to him, filled with the mystery and wonder of Maine’s rocky coast. The two soon discover that the town elders, along with T

Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Clarion Book
Keywords: wars, wednesday
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-05-21
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0618724834
ISBN-13: 9780618724833

Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero in THE WEDNESDAY WARS—a wonderfully witty and compelling novel about a teenage boy’s mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967-68 school year.Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High, who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, while the rest of the class has religious instruction. Mrs. Baker doesn’t like Holling—he’s sure of it. Why else would she make him read the plays of William Shakespeare outside class? But everyone has bigger things to worry about, like Vietnam. His fath

Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Clarion Books
Keywords: gold, straw
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-04-23
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0618056017
ISBN-13: 9780618056019

What fills a hand fuller than a skein of gold? By order of the king, two boys, Tousle and Innes, must find the answer to this puzzling riddle within seven days or be killed. A former nursemaid to the queen"s child tells the boys that the banished queen may have the answer they seek. Danger presents itself at every turn, for the boys are pursued by the Great Barons, who are secretly plotting against the king. Another pursuer, the greedy King"s Grip, reveals a strange story of a little man who once spun straw into gold of incredible beauty for the queen but then disappeared with her firstborn so

Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Clarion Books
Keywords: trouble
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-04-21
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0618927662
ISBN-13: 9780618927661

“Henry Smith’s father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.”But Trouble comes careening down the road one night in the form of a pickup truck that strikes Henry’s older brother, Franklin. In the truck is Chay Chouan, a young Cambodian from Franklin’s preparatory school, and the accident sparks racial tensions in the school—and in the well-established town where Henry’s family has lived for generations. Caught between anger and grief, Henry sets out to do the only thing he can think of: climb Mt. Katahdin, the highest

Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: wars, wednesday
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-05-18
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 054723760X
ISBN-13: 9780547237602

This Newbery Honor tale is now in paperback!Holling Hoodhood is really in for it. He’s just started seventh grade with Mrs. Baker, a teacher he knows is out to get him. Why else would she make him read Shakespeare . . . outside of class? The year is 1967, and everyone has bigger things than homework to worry about. There’s Vietnam for one thing, and then there’s the family business. As far as Holling’s father is concerned, nothing is more important than the family business. In fact, all of the Hoodhoods must be on their best behavior at all times. The success of Hoodhood and Associ

Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Graphia
Keywords: trouble
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2010-04-12
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0547331339
ISBN-13: 9780547331331

“Contains Schmidt’s eloquent language and compelling characters.” —School Library Journal, starred review  “Henry’s odyssey of growth and understanding is pitch-perfect.” —The Bulletin  “Emotionally gripping and seductively told.” —Publishers Weekly  When Henry Smith’s older brother goes into a coma after being hit by a Cambodian boy’s pickup truck, the entire Smith family is engulfed in the tragedy. It takes a mountain, which Henry vows to climb, to open the eyes of this long-established Yankee family to their own prejudices and to an awareness that they can never insul

Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: gold, straw
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-04-20
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0547237766
ISBN-13: 9780547237763