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Books by Norma Fox Mazer






The Missing Girl(Reprint)
by Norma Fox Mazer
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2010 by Harperteen
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-447365-1, ISBN: 0-06-447365-1

"Pub Date: 2010-01-19 Pages: 284 Language: eng Publisher: HarperCollins US This is the story of five sisters - Beauty. Mim. Stevie. Fancy. and Autumn - and the man who watches men He could be any. ordinary man but hes not Unaware of his scrutiny and his increasingly forbidden thoughts about them. the sisters go on with their ordinary lives -.... planning. arguing. laughing. and crying - as if nothing bad could ever breach the security of ..."






Good Night, Maman(Reprint)
by Norma Fox Mazer
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2010 by Hmh Books For Young Readers
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-206173-9, ISBN: 0-15-206173-8

"Young readers who have loved and mourned Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl may take solace in the more hopeful ending of Good Night, Maman, Norma Fox Mazer's tender story of a brother and sister's escape from the Holocaust. Like all Jews in France during World War II, Karin and her older brother Marc are on the run from the Nazis. At first the siblings and their strong and gentle mother hide for more than a year in a tiny storage close ..."






Taking Terri Mueller(Reprint)
by Norma Fox Mazer
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Lizzie Skurnick Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-939601-38-4, ISBN: 1-939601-38-X

"Fourteen-year-old Terri has lived with her father since the death of her mother in a car accident when she was four. Father and daughter move often, the reason for which becomes clear when Terri finds out that her mother is not dead, and that she was kidnapped by her father when her parents were getting a divorce."






Crazy Fish(1st Edition)
by Norma Fox Mazer
Paperback, 147 Pages, Published 2007 by Hmh Books For Young Readers
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-206373-3, ISBN: 0-15-206373-0

"The bell rang. I folded my wax paper and lunch bag carefully. With every fold I made a wish. Lacey, Lacey, come back to school tomorrow. Lacey wasn't in school Wednesday, or Thursday either. That was the bad part of those days. The good part was that no one made up poems or put pictures on the blackboard. But Thursday afternoon, when I was getting my stuff from my locker, RB Byrd and Michael Staley walked past me. "I smell somethin ..."






When We First Met(Reprint)
by Norma Fox Mazer, Mazer Harry
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2015 by Atheneum Books For Young Readers
ISBN-13: 978-1-4814-5103-1, ISBN: 1-4814-5103-0

"Jenny Pennoyer causes trouble for herself and distress for her family by falling in love with Rob Montana, whose mother killed Jenny's sister in an automobile accident two years earlier."






When She Was Good(Reprint)
by Norma Fox Mazer
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2000 by Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 978-0-590-31990-4, ISBN: 0-590-31990-6

"Norma Fox Mazer's remarkable story of two sisters fighting to survive against a world without caring, reissued in a 10th anniversary paperback edition, to coincide with Mazer's new novel in hardcover.In the sad, shabby trailer where Em Thurkill lived her first fourteen years, suffering her father's alcoholic rages and her mother's deathly silence, and in the three she lived trapped with her violent, unstable sister, there seems more tha ..."






Silver(Reprint)
by Norma Fox Mazer
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1989 by Harperteen
ISBN-13: 978-0-380-75026-9, ISBN: 0-380-75026-0

"My mother is determined that I will have a wonderful life -- better than her own. I guess she can't imagine what it is like for me, a kid from a trailer park, to transfer to the junior high school where all the rich kids go -- the kind of kids who come from homes where my mother works as a cleaning woman....But somehow, miraculously, I've become part of a little clique of pretty and popular girls who have everything money can buy. And s ..."






Ten Ways to Make My Sister Disappear(Reprint)
by Norma Fox Mazer
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2012 by Arthur A. Levine Books
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-439-83984-6, ISBN: 0-439-83984-X

"It's little sister vs. big in this fresh take on a classic struggle by a master storyteller.Everything ten year-old Sprig wants, her older sister Dakota already has. Everything Sprig does, Dakota does better. And anytime Sprig complains, Dakota just grins and calls her a baby. It’s enough to make a kid wish her sister would disappear.But in a year when Sprig’s father is away, her favorite neighbor is ill, and the class bully is acting a ..."






Babyface(Reprint)
by Norma Fox Mazer
Paperback, 170 Pages, Published 2007 by Hmh Books For Young Readers
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-206277-4, ISBN: 0-15-206277-7

"Fourteen-year-old Toni has always felt lucky--but her luck begins to change the summer her father suffers a near-fatal heart attack, her best friend moves away, and Toni is sent to New York City stay with her older sister, Martine, who reveals a devastating secret about their family. "






What I Believe
by Norma Fox Mazer
Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2005 by Harcourt Children's Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-201462-9, ISBN: 0-15-201462-4

"Vicki's life had been perfect--now it's definitely not. When her father is laid off from his job, her family's familiar comforts slip away. They move to a city apartment, and Vicki has to forge a new path at her urban school. Worst of all, one night her depressed father simply disappears. Vicki soon finds herself living a double life--fine on the outside, anything but fine on the inside--and that leads to a moral dilemma she's ultimatel ..."






Out of Control(Reprint)
by Norma Fox Mazer, Ellen Thompson, Lorma Fox Maza
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1994 by Harperteen
ISBN-13: 978-0-380-71347-9, ISBN: 0-380-71347-0

"It starts as an ordinary school day. Just the same asany other. Until Valerie Michon gets up and leaves theauditorium. And three boys decide to follow her.She heads for the stairs and the boys run after her.They are fast, they are quiet. They don't talk about it.They just do it. It's a game. Fun. On the third floorthey catch up with her.It happens fast, so fast. It's like a dream. She yells, andtwists and turns trying to get free, but t ..."






After the Rain(Reprint)
by Norma Fox Mazer
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1987 by Harperteen
ISBN-13: 978-0-380-75025-2, ISBN: 0-380-75025-2

" At fifteen, Rachel is a worrier. She worries about whether her family understands her, whether her friends like her, and whether she'll get her first kiss before she turns sixteen. And she worries about whether she can handle having a real boyfriend if he does come along. But it takes a dying old man -- her grandfather -- who has never been easy for anyone to handle, to show Rachel she has very special abilities. With love and compass ..."






Missing Pieces(1st Edition)
by Norma Fox Mazer
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2007 by Hmh Books For Young Readers
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ISBN-13: 978-0-15-206271-2, ISBN: 0-15-206271-8

"Jessie Wells can't remember her father, James--he left her family when she was very young. Now fifteen, Jessie has a sudden desire to track down the man she always thought of as "the disappearing dude." She calls all the Wellses in the phone book, hoping to speak to someone who knows her father. But will she be prepared when she finally finds him?"






Censored Books(Updated)
Critical Viewpoints
by Nicholas J. Karolides, Lee Burress, John M. Kean, Arthur Miller, Katherine Paterson, Mary Stolz, William Sleator, Edwardb Jenkinson, Maryemma Graham, Margaret Odegard, Norbert Blei, Marshall Toman, John A. Williams, Norma Fox Mazer, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Arlene Harris Mitchell, Robin F. Brancato, Robert M. O'neil, Sue Ellen Bridgers, Robert M. Adams, Richard H. Beckham, Zibby Oneal, Angelene Jamison-Hall, Frederik Pohl Iv, Harry Harder, Robert Beck, Terry Beck, James A. Michener, Jim Mulvey, Jr. Small Robert, Frank Battaglia, Jean P. Rumsey, Imogene Desmet, Frank Zidonis, William G. Mcbride, James Bertolino, Opal Moore, Paula Fox, James Demuth, Gilbert Powell Findlay, Paul Slayton, Jack Stark, Sue Bridwell Beckham, Gladys V. Veidemanis, James E. Davis, Thomas Scarseth, Laura Quinn, Ron Neuhaus, Alleen Pace Nilsen, Professor Joan Delfattore, Jean M. Kean, John M'kean, Karolides/Burress/Ke, Contributor-John...
Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2001 by Scarecrow Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-4038-6, ISBN: 0-8108-4038-3

"New in Paperback! This collection of sixty-three essays provides assistance to the growing number of students, teachers, librarians, and parents who find themselves confronting a censorship situation. The contributors are both authors--of fiction, drama, and poetry for adults, children, and adolescents--and teachers of literature, writing about the books that are most frequently challenged in schools and libraries. Part I provides six a ..."






Has Anyone Seen My Emily Greene?
by Norma Fox Mazer, Christine Davenier
Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2007 by Candlewick
ISBN-13: 978-0-7636-1384-6, ISBN: 0-7636-1384-3

"The perennial game of hide-and- seek between parent and child inspires a lilting text and charming illustrations.It’s time for lunch, but where, oh, where is Emily Greene? Her father searches for her everywhere, but without any luck. Look carefully, and don’t forget to check behind the curtains! In her first picture book, acclaimed author Norma Fox Mazer teams with renowned illustrator Christine Davenier to create a merry game of hi ..."






Ten Ways to Make My Sister Disappear
by Norma Fox Mazer
Paperback, Published 2007 by Scholastic
ISBN-13: 978-0-545-10588-0, ISBN: 0-545-10588-9

"Ten years after WHEN SHE WAS GOOD launched Arthur A. Levine Books, Mazer brings us TEN WAYS TO MAKE MY SISTER DISAPPEAR, a humorous look at a blistering sister rivalry. Everything ten year-old Sprig wants, her older sister Dakota already has. Everything Sprig does, Dakota does better. And anytime Sprig complains, Dakota just grins and calls her a baby. It's enough to make a kid wish her sister would disappear. But in a year when Sprig ..."






Bright Days, Stupid Nights
by Norma Fox Mazer, Harry Mazer
Hardcover, 194 Pages, Published 1992 by Delacorte Books For Young Readers
ISBN-13: 978-0-553-08126-8, ISBN: 0-553-08126-8

"From the Paperback edition."






Stay True(Reprint)
Short Stories for Strong Girls (Apple Signature)
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, M. E. Kerr, Norma Fox Mazer, Anne Mazer, Rita Williams-Garcia, Marian Flandrick Bray, Peni R. Griffin, Jennifer Armstrong, Marilyn Singer
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1999 by Scholastic
ISBN-13: 978-0-590-36033-3, ISBN: 0-590-36033-7

""Sometimes our inside-the-head world gets so crammed with what other people think that what we think gets squished out our ears or something." So laments the young protagonist Molly-Be-Gone in C. Drew Lamm's "Stay True," the title story in this impressive collection of short tales about teenage girls finding strength within themselves (and bringing it forth for the whole world to see). The contributing authors read like the women's wing ..."






When She Was Good(1st Edition)
by Norma Fox Mazer
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1997 by Arthur A. Levine Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-590-13506-1, ISBN: 0-590-13506-6

"Presenting Newbery Honor author Norma Fox Mazer's unforgettable survivor tale of how hope outlives brutality. Em Thurkill, a girl full of sweetness in a life of almost unbearable pain, is at the center of Mazer's heartbreaking, mesmerizing, and ultimately uplifting story."






A for Ami
by Norma Fox Mazer
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1988 by Puffin, London
Import
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-032469-3, ISBN: 0-14-032469-0



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