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32 pp.
| Blooming
| April, 2008
|
TradeISBN 978-1-933831-07-7$14.95
(3)
K-3
Late at night, six-year-old penguin Patrick's parents find him with a plunger on his head, outside in the mailbox, etc. A doctor determines that he's normal: he's just a sleepwalker. The diagnosis leads to a newly confident Patrick. This original take on the it's-okay-to-be-different story features an expressive protagonist doing his own (often weird) thing.
241 pp.
| Blooming
| March, 2008
|
TradeISBN 978-1-933831-08-4$16.95
(4)
YA
Brittany, a cellist, envies her outgoing best friend, Amanda, star of the school play. When the girls receive threatening notes, Brittany is determined to unmask the menace. What will she do if the guilty party turns out to be her (and the play's) leading man? Though the dialogue is hackneyed, the story does offer some light suspense.
235 pp.
| Blooming
| September, 2008
|
TradeISBN 978-1-933831-11-4$16.95
(4)
4-6
Illustrated by
Regan Johnson.
After their parents' deaths, eleven-year-old Alex and her sister move from Oklahoma to San Francisco. Alex wants nothing more than to go home. She feels alienated from Auntie Ling's Taiwanese culture and no longer finds solace in artistic expression. A lengthy Chinese fable that gives Alex strength may not compel readers, but they will sympathize with her grief.