Download or read book Presenting Norma Fox Mazer written by Sally Holmes Holtze and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical study of a popular author and her work, which has been influential in the field of realistic fiction for young adults.
Download or read book Silver written by Norma Fox Mazer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1989-10-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their different backgrounds, Sarabeth, a teenager living with her mother in a trailer and transferring to a new school, makes friends with Grant and her affluent friends, including troubled Patty who shares a painful secret about her uncle.
Download or read book Presenting Norma Fox Mazer written by Sally Holmes Holtze and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical study of a popular author and her work, which has been influential in the field of realistic fiction for young adults.
Download or read book Taking Terri Mueller written by Norma Fox Mazer and published by Lizzie Skurnick Books. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terri learns that she was kidnapped by her father as a child, and that her mother is still alive.
Download or read book The Missing Girl written by Norma Fox Mazer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He could be any man, any respectable, ordinary man. But he's not. This man watches the five Herbert girls—Beauty, Mim, Stevie, Fancy, and Autumn—with disturbing fascination. Unaware of his scrutiny and his increasingly agitated and forbidden thoughts about them, the sisters go on with their ordinary everyday lives—planning, arguing, laughing, and crying—as if nothing bad could ever breach the safety of their family. In alternating points of view, Norma Fox Mazer manages to interweave the lives of predator and prey in this unforgettable psychological thriller.
Download or read book Norma Fox Mazer written by Arthea J. S. Reed and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In preparation for this publication, author Arthea J.S. Reed spent time with Norma Fox Mazer, the widely acclaimed young adult novelist, who works with not only her husband, but her daughter as well. The book explores the facets of Mazer's works which mirror her own life. In Norma Fox Mazer: A Writer's World, Reed chronicles her discovery that, although her husband and his work are thoroughly intertwined with and complimentary to her own, Norma Fox Mazer "is fiercely independent--a feminist." Reed was fortunate enough to be able to include Mazer's voice in this work as a compliment to her own thorough autobiographical and critical articles. Written primarily for those who are looking to garner a true understanding and appreciation of the craftsmanship behind Mazer's work, readers will also discern where the author stands in the context of the history of young adult literature. Reed provides a chronology of Mazer's twenty books and several awards, a selected bibliography, and a helpful index. The seven chapters of the book are titled: The Roots of Realism, Missing Pieces and Outsiders, Star-Crossed Love, Norma and Harry: Relationship, Romance and Writing, Writing for Young Readers, Fantasy and Suspense, and From Excellence to Mastery.
Download or read book A Figure of Speech written by Norma Fox Mazer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both overlooked in the middle of a big, noisy family, Jenny and her grandpa will always have each other to confide in . . . right? No one in Jenny Pennoyer’s family understands her at all—no one, that is, except her grandfather, who lives in an apartment in the basement of her family’s home. Jenny and her grandfather have been close ever since she was born, when Grandpa, newly widowed, found that a baby was just the thing he needed to get back on his feet. But as Jenny’s family grows and they’re all pinched together in one house, her parents become less and less patient with Grandpa’s desire to be independent. Jenny feels like his only defender, the only one who sees him as a person with a mind of his own. As Jenny grows increasingly protective, Grandpa’s determination and Jenny’s love for him will lead them on an adventure together that their family never expected.
Download or read book Places I Never Meant to be written by Judy Blume and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories accompanied by short essays on censorship by twelve authors whose works have been challenged in the past.
Download or read book Good Night Maman written by Norma Fox Mazer and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.
Download or read book A Boy at War written by Harry Mazer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They rowed hard, away from the battleships and the bombs. Water sprayed over them. The rowboat pitched one way and then the other. Then, before his eyes, the Arizona lifted up out of the water. That enormous battleship bounced up in the air like a rubber ball and split apart. Fire burst out of the ship. A geyser of water shot into the air and came crashing down. Adam was almost thrown out of the rowboat. He clung to the seat as it swung around. He saw blue skies and the glittering city. The boat swung back again, and he saw black clouds, and the Arizona, his father's ship, sinking beneath the water. -- from A Boy at War "He kept looking up, afraid the planes would come back. The sky was obscured by black smoke....It was all unreal: the battleships half sunk, the bullet holes in the boat, Davi and Martin in the water." December 7, 1941: On a quiet Sunday morning, while Adam and his friends are fishing near Honolulu, a surprise attack by Japanese bombers destroys the fleet at Pearl Harbor. Even as Adam struggles to survive the sudden chaos all around him, and as his friends endure the brunt of the attack, a greater concern hangs over his head: Adam's father, a navy lieutenant, was stationed on the USS Arizona when the bombs fell. During the subsequent days Adam -- not yet a man, but no longer a boy -- is caught up in the war as he desperately tries to make sense of what happened to his friends and to find news of his father. Harry Mazer, whose autobiographical novel, The Last Mission, brought the European side of World War II to vivid life, now turns to the Pacific theater and how the impact of war can alter young lives forever.
Download or read book Getting Through the Day written by Nancy J. Napier and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting Through the Day enables adults who were traumatized as children to learn new strategies to meet the demands of daily living. Counselor Nancy Napier presents dozens of exercises helpful to anyone who finds that unresolved childhood feelings are blocking life's path.
Download or read book Missing Pieces written by Norma Fox Mazer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessie’s father has always been a missing piece of her life—but if she were to find him, how would he feel about her? Jessie Wells thinks four is a good number. Things with four sides are sturdy and strong. A box, a chair, a room with four walls. But ever since the day Jessie’s dad left, Jessie, her mother, and Aunt Zis have been a triangle—three-sided, though solidly linked. Jessie has heard the story: Her beautiful young mother had married a prince who disappeared one day, so she had raised her daughter with the help of Aunt Zis. But lately, the picture in Jessie’s mind seems incomplete. Who is James Wells? she wonders. He must be more than just a deadbeat dad who deserted his wife and child, and Jessie is determined to find out, even if she has to call every Wells in the phone book—and there are a lot of them. But if Jessie finds her father and asks him all her questions, will she like the answers?
Download or read book Presenting Norma Klein written by Allene Phy-Olsen and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly traces Klein's life and career, and discusses the major themes of her fiction.
Download or read book Summer Girls Love Boys written by Norma Fox Mazer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some loves last forever—others, only a summer The summer Mary turns fifteen, she meets an unsuitable boy with an even more unsuitable motorcycle. Who cares if he’s from the wrong side of the tracks? He’s fun, and that’s a risk Mary decides is worth taking. Before she got married and had three children, Zelda quit college to work in a factory because she thought it would impress her seriously political boyfriend. But it was in the factory that she found a sisterhood and a source of inspiration that would last a lifetime—considerably longer than the boyfriend. Lillian has lived all her life on Greene Street. She grew up there, got married there, raised two girls who went off to live their lives, and now—at her age!—she has the chance to leave it all behind and find love in sunny Florida. But can she, if it means living without Greene Street? There are many kinds of love, and you’ll find most of them in this collection of short stories by the extraordinary Norma Fox Mazer.
Download or read book Such a Pretty Face written by Ann Angel and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With stories by acclaimed and exciting new YA writers: Louise Hawes J. James Keels Ron Koertge Chris Lynch Norma Fox Mazer Lauren Myracle Jamie Pittel Anita Riggio Mary Ann Rodman Ellen Wittlinger Jacqueline Woodson Tim Wynne-Jones A stellar line-up of young adult writers examines our relationship with beauty in stories that haunt, amuse, stir, and fascinate. A beauty queen with a chin-hair problem, an aspiring model who would rather take pictures than be in them, a boy in love with the gorgeous nurse he’s never seen, a girl named Beauty who feels like anything but—the teenagers in these dozen stories feel the power of beauty, whether it’s to trap, save, torment, or comfort. In an era when image seems to have triumphed over virtue and reason, this timely, discussion-provoking collection asks young readers to think about what is truly beautiful.
Download or read book Stay True written by Marilyn Singer and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories by various authors, including Andrea Davis Pinkney, M.E. Kerr, and Anne Mazer, about adolescent girls coming of age.
Download or read book Thematic Guide to Young Adult Literature written by Alice L. Trupe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary young adult literature is a relatively new genre. This guide provides an overview of the burgeoning field, focusing primarily on fiction. Each of the 32 chapters is devoted to a theme of special significance to young adults, and provides brief critical discussions of several related literary works. Chapters close with lists of fiction for further reading. An appendix groups works according to additional themes, and a selected bibliography cites relevant critical studies.
