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  • SHOCKPROOF SYDNEY SKATE
    MARIJANE MEAKER / M. E. KERR
    A uniquely witty novel exploring sex, freedom, and the process of growing up Sydney Skate considers himself shockproof. For as long as he can remember, he's known that his fashionable Manhattan mother is secretly a lesbian, although he's never let on that he knows. He spends his summer days caring for snakes at the local pet shop before leaving for college at Cornell, shrugging...

    $119.00

  • SHOEBAG
    M. E. KERR / MARY JAMES
    A cockroach wakes up one morning and discovers that he has turned into a boy Shoebag likes his life as a cockroach. Like the others in his "tribe," he was named for the place of his birth—in his case, a white summer sandal. He enjoys living in a Boston apartment building with his parents, Drainboard and Under The Toaster, although they've lost countless relatives to jumping spi...

    $119.00

  • IS THAT YOU, MISS BLUE?
    M. E. KERR
    A teenager whose parents have separated tries to adapt to life at a boarding school and make a fresh start in a strange new place After her mother runs off with her much-younger boyfriend, fourteen-year-old Flanders is shipped off to a boarding school in Virginia. On the train, she meets Carolyn Cardmaker, a preacher's daughter who will become her best friend. She also meets Er...

    $119.00

  • SOMEONE LIKE SUMMER
    M. E. KERR
    A seventeen-year-old girl falls in love with a Latino immigrant in this powerhouse novel about taboo passion and interracial love Annabel Brown's first glimpse of the boy fated to change her life is on a soccer field near her home in the resort town of Seaview, Long Island. His name is Esteban Santiago, and he came to town as a member of a crew hired by Annabel's father, a wido...

    $119.00

  • GENTLEHANDS
    M. E. KERR
    Sixteen-year-old Buddy Boyle makes a shattering discovery about his family in this powerful and poignant novel by award-winning author M. E. Kerr Buddy Boyle lives with his parents and younger brother in a small house on a half-acre of land in undesirable Seaville, New York. Skye Pennington spends her summers on the opposite end of town on five acres with a view of the ocean. B...

    $119.00

  • DINKY HOCKER SHOOTS SMACK!
    M. E. KERR
    M. E. Kerr's first novel—hailed by the New York Times as a "timely, compelling," and "brilliantly funny" look at adolescence and friendship It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn—Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf's dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job. Now his father has suddenly developed an allergy to Tucker's cat, Nader, a nine-month-old cal...

    $119.00

  • NIGHT KITES
    M. E. KERR
    What do you do when your whole world is blown apart? A seventeen-year-old confronts love, betrayal, and his brother's illness in this brave, deeply compassionate novel by M. E. Kerr Life is going great for Seaville High senior Erick Rudd. He's a good student, he has a girlfriend he'll probably marry, and he's on a straight path to college. Then his best friend's girlfriend lets...

    $119.00

  • FRANKENLOUSE
    M. E. KERR / MARY JAMES
    A fourteen-year-old boy invents a comic-book fantasy world ruled by a book-dwelling insect named Frankenlouse   I am called Nick. I was fourteen the year of this story, the year that changed my life . . . Nick Reber is a cadet with cartoonist dreams. Nick's father, a by-the-books control freak, believes his son's creative aspirations are a waste of time. As commanding officer o...

    $85.00

  • SHOEBAG RETURNS
    M. E. KERR / MARY JAMES
    In the hilarious sequel to  Shoebag, the cockroach uses his magical abilities to help a lonely boy at an all-girls' school Shoebag and his roach family have taken up residence in the Lower School at Miss Rattray's School for Girls in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Shoebag and his parents, Drainboard and Under The Toaster, like their new home because it's close to the kitchen. But lately,...

    $119.00

  • SLAP YOUR SIDES
    M. E. KERR
    World War II comes to a small Pennsylvania town in this thought-provoking novel about a peace-loving Quaker family  War may be raging in Europe, but in Sweet Creek, Pennsylvania, peace is being waged. Bud Shoemaker is vehemently opposed to the war when he registers for the draft as a conscientious objector. No one except his Quaker family shares Bud's pacifist views—although hi...

    $119.00

  • SNAKES DON'T MISS THEIR MOTHERS
    M. E. KERR
    The residents of Critters animal shelter are all looking for a home There are many creatures at Critters, an animal-rescue facility, who are waiting for a home. Irving, a twelve-year-old part–German shorthaired pointer, loves to watch the soaps and has been living at Critters so long he believes it  is his home. Placido, on the other hand, has no problem finding new homes—but w...

    $85.00

  • SNAKES DON'T MISS THEIR MOTHERS
    M. E. KERR
    The residents of Critters animal shelter are all looking for a home There are many creatures at Critters, an animal-rescue facility, who are waiting for a home. Irving, a twelve-year-old part–German shorthaired pointer, loves to watch the soaps and has been living at Critters so long he believes it is his home. Placido, on the other hand, has no problem finding new homes—but wi...

    $85.00

  • DELIVER US FROM EVIE
    M. E. KERR
    Award-winning author M. E. Kerr challenges stereotypes in this story about a fifteen-year-old grappling with his older sister's sexuality Parr Burrman lives with his parents and his older brother and sister on a farm in Missouri. They're a typical Midwestern family—except for one thing. Parr's father thinks Evie's going to marry Cord Whittle, who's had a crush on her forever, a...

    $119.00

  • YOUR EYES IN STARS
    M. E. KERR
    Set during the Depression, this haunting historical novel by M. E. Kerr follows two teenage girls—one German, the other American—whose friendship plays out against the quickly shifting political world stage Jessie Myrer is the daughter of the prison warden in Cayuta County, where there are few foreigners and even fewer Jews. Jessie's provincial views change when she meets her n...

    $119.00

  • "HELLO," I LIED
    M. E. KERR
    From the Margaret A. Edwards Award–winning author of  Deliver Us from Evie comes a novel about a gay teenager who discovers a different kind of love during an unforgettable summer in the Hamptons I'd always think of it as the summer that I loved a girl . . . Seventeen-year-old Lang Penner and his mother are spending the summer in the caretaker's cottage at Roundelay, the sprawl...

    $119.00

  • THE SHUTEYES
    M. E. KERR / MARY JAMES
    The fantastical story of a lonely eleven-year-old whose parrot takes him on a magical mystery tour of a planet where sleeping is against the law Chester Dumbello’s mom interprets people’s dreams. One day a white, one-eyed parrot flies into the Dream Café. Chester’s mom says that the day something rhymes with orange, they can keep the parrot. Since nothing does, she comes up wit...

    $119.00

  • LOVE IS A MISSING PERSON
    M. E. KERR
    A Long Island teenager reunites with her older sister in a novel about family, sibling rivalry, and the love you didn’t know you were missing Fifteen-year-old Suzy Slade’s parents are divorced. Now Suzy lives with her mother in a beautiful house on the ocean in Seaville, Long Island. Her gorgeous older sister, Chicago, lives with their father in New York City. At least, she did...

    $119.00

  • WHAT I REALLY THINK OF YOU
    M. E. KERR
    The daughter of faith-healing Christians and the son of a TV evangelist are the stars of this lively cautionary tale about religion, family, faith, and love I start my story with the day I first saw Jesse Pegler. That was when my whole life first started changing. Sixteen-year-old Opal Ringer is the daughter of Royal Ringer, the Pentecostal leader of a motley flock of down-on-t...

    $119.00

  • LINGER
    M. E. KERR
    In this novel by the award-winning author of Gentlehands and Slap Your Sides, a teenager starts to look at life differently when his older brother is sent to the Persian Gulf To sixteen-year-old Gary Peel, Linger is home. His father is manager of the Pennsylvania restaurant; his mom takes care of the books; and Gary’s older brother, Bobby, works there as a waiter. That is, unti...

    $119.00

  • EDGE
    M. E. KERR
    These 15 short stories by a writer the New York Times Book Review has called "one of the grand masters of young adult fiction" capture our fears, yearnings, loneliness, self-doubts, and universal need for love and acceptance M. E. Kerr's pioneering young adult literature has gained a devoted following for fearlessly breaking rules and confronting conformity. In Edge, her tradem...

    $119.00

  • EDGE
    M. E. KERR
    These 15 short stories by a writer the New York Times Book Review has called "one of the grand masters of young adult fiction" capture our fears, yearnings, loneliness, self-doubts, and universal need for love and acceptance M. E. Kerr's pioneering young adult literature has gained a devoted following for fearlessly breaking rules and confronting conformity. In Edge, her tradem...

    $119.00

  • LITTLE LITTLE
    M. E. KERR
    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder in this unusual love story Little Little La Belle isn't redundant. She's a dwarf—a beautiful blond heiress who lives a pampered existence in the New York town named after her family. With her eighteenth birthday approaching, her parents want to marry Little Little off to the perfect man. Enter Sydney Cinnamon. Orphaned young, he went on to b...

    $119.00

  • FRANKENLOUSE
    M. E. KERR / MARY JAMES
    A fourteen-year-old boy invents a comic-book fantasy world ruled by a book-dwelling insect named Frankenlouse   I am called Nick. I was fourteen the year of this story, the year that changed my life . . . Nick Reber is a cadet with cartoonist dreams. Nick’s father, a by-the-books control freak, believes his son’s creative aspirations are a waste of time. As commanding officer o...

    $85.00

  • YOUR EYES IN STARS
    M. E. KERR
    Set during the Depression, this haunting historical novel by M. E. Kerr follows two teenage girls—one German, the other American—whose friendship plays out against the quickly shifting political world stage Jessie Myrer is the daughter of the prison warden in Cayuta County, where there are few foreigners and even fewer Jews. Jessie’s provincial views change when she meets her n...

    $119.00