This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs.Author's Talbert has written many books for young readers, several of them published in seven foreign countries. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Tesque, New in Japan, Great Britain, Spain, Norway, and Denmark, Dead Birds Singing has won numerous awards in the United States and abroad.
This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. Author's Marc Talbert has written many books for young readers, several of them published in seven foreign countries. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Tesuque, New Mexico. 16-year-old Bernie finds a boy camping in some nearby hills with equipment taken from her family's New Mexico dude ranch. Sean Raven tells Bennie his is a young rock singer who has run away form the musical tour and his overbearing father.Disbelieving at first yet intrigued by Sean's story, Bernie brings him food and blankets. Before long both young people are involved on a path that is completely out of their control and destined for a swift and shattering conclusion.
After his father leaves the family, fifth-grader Martin can't imagine life getting any worse until his mother starts dating his teacher. "A beautifully written book that explores the turbulent feelings engendered by divorce and growing up" —Publishers Weekly
This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. Author's Marc Talbert has written many books for young readers, several of them published in seven foreign countries. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Tesuque, New Mexico. Toby's family is different from most. His father is retarded and his mother brain-damaged.When Toby hears the Reverend Olsen tell his mother that her son is running wild, Toby recognized it as another skirmish in his long battle to stay with his illiterate parents.The minister's charges, along with those of a neighbor who accuses Toby of stealing, are only two of the daunting problems Toby must confront. But none of his opponents take into account Toby's most powerful weapon-the great unquestioning love he and his parents share.
When Sam's Uncle Frank dies, he leaves his magic tricks to his nine-year-old nephew. This is a book about magic- the kind magicians perform, as well as the magic of believing in dreams, and in oneself. Also published in Germany.
This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. Author's Marc Talbert has written many books for young readers, several of them published in seven foreign countries. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Tesuque, New Mexico. Wounded. That must make my father a hero, thinks Luke Canvin. When his father arrives home from Vietnam, he is silent, tearful, and tired. This is not what Luke pictures a hero to be. How did his father earn his Purple Heart? Luke becomes convinced his father's Purple Heart holds the answers to the questions he can not bring himself to ask. The costs of pride, dignity, honesty, and humility become apparent as Luke and his father struggle to rebuild their relationship and learn, in the process, a new definition of courage.
Nobody, not even Jeremys mother knows the terrible secret that keeps him wary and afraid. On Halloween night, however, Jeremys worst fears are realized his secret is revealed and a charge of sexual molestation explodes with devastating impact.