• Publication Season/Year: Spring / 2011
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Release Date: forthcoming
• ISBN (hardcover): TBD
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

Robbie is convinced his life is over. He is sent to Great Oaks, a school for troubled youth that is run like a prison. To get home, he must follow the rules, face the past, and tell the truth. Otherwise, Great Oaks School will really be the end of the line. The Author: Angela Cerrito Location: Germany Angela Cerrito is an author and pediatric physical therapist. She is a recipient of the Kimberly Colen Memorial Grant and the Assistant International Advisor for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Living… Continue reading

While I was growing up, my dad often talked to me about the books that grabbed him when he was a boy. He did well enough in school, but he wasn't the studious type my mother was. The books that drew him in were not those that took twenty pages to get moving. As a boy, he loved Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer or Jules Verne's Sci-fi. As a teen, he continued to gravitate to novels full of adventure and humor, those that let him escape.

When a friend of mine recently asked for some boy book recommendations… Continue reading

For much of my childhood, we were a household of females. My mom, my sister and I lived in a house where nobody left the seat up, most of the dirty clothes actually made it into the hamper and nobody knew how to make realistic machine-gun sounds or burp the alphabet on cue. We also read a lot. Fate now smirks when she sees me, as I am the only female in a house full of males – even the dog and both of the cats are boys. The presence of several Y chromosomes in my life has made me… Continue reading

• Publication Season/Year: Summer, 2009
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Release Date: August 11, 2009
• ISBN (hardcover): 9780385737333
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

Someone is killing boys in a small town. The murder weapon is a truck, and the only protection is a curfew enacted to keep kids off the streets. But it's summer-and that alone is worth the risk of staying out late for James, Willie, and Reggie. Willie, who lost his arm in the first hit-and-run attack, finds it hard to keep up with his two best friends as they leave childhood behind. All of them are changing, hounded by their parents, hunted by the killer, and haunted… Continue reading