Bibliography

FRED'S BED

Fred’s Bed

(HarperCollins, 2001)
Fred needs a new bed—what kind should it be? A young picture book.
Illustrated by JoAnn Adinolfi.

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MONSTER MUSEUM

Monster Museum

(Disney-Hyperion, 2001)
Zombies, vampires, banshees, Bigfoot and other creepsters abound in this series of nutty poems featuring the strange exhibits found in the Monster Museum.
Illustrated by Gris Grimly.

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The Circus Lunicus

The Circus Lunicus

(Holt, 2000)

A mysterious Cinderella story about a boy, a plastic lizard, and a circus that’s possibly from outer space. For middle-grade readers.

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I BELIEVE IN WATER: Twelve Brushes With Religion,

I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes With Religion

(HarperCollins, 2000)
An anthology of short stories for teens about religion, edited by Marilyn and including her contribution “Fabulous Shoes,” as well as stories by Nancy Springer, Gregory Maguire, Virginia Euwer Wolff, Jacqueline Woodson, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Kyoko Mori, Jennifer Armstrong, Joyce Carol Thomas, M.E. Kerr, Jess Mowry, and Naomi Shihab Nye.

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THE GOLDEN HEART OF WINTER

The Golden Heart of Winter

(Morrow, 1991)
To help him choose the next master of the forge, a blacksmith sends his three sons on a quest to bring him back something of value. Kindly Half, the youngest, stops in a magical wood to free an imprisoned raven, who tells him the secret of the most precious object in the world: the Golden Heart of Winter, a glowing heart that beats beneath the ground so that spring will follow winter forever and Life will rule equally with Death. When his two greedy brothers dig up the Heart, it is up to Half to rescue it and save his land from ruin.
Illustrated by Robert Rayevsky.

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Exotic Birds

(Doubleday, 1991)
Exotic birds, including eighteen diverse environments and their avian inhabitants.
Illustrated by James Needham.

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Twenty Ways to Lose Your Best Friend

(Harper & Row, 1990)

Emma has been taught to “do the right thing.” So she votes for a better actor rather than her best friend to play the lead in the fourth grade class play. When her friend, Sandy, finds out, Emma’s in trouble. A Junior Library Guild selection. A Trumpet Book Club selection (paperback), 1992. Illustrations by Jeffrey Lindberg.

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Charmed

(Atheneum, 1990)

Twelve-year-old Miranda and her invisible fenine friend, Bastable, who looks much like an upright cat, must join forces with several other beings from different worlds to defeat the evil Charmer.

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Storm Rising

Storm Rising

(Scholastic, 1989)

Storm Ryder, age seventeen, a talented young pianist with a difficult home life, falls in love with his employer, a mysterious twenty-eight-year-old electrician named Jocelyn Sayers, who turns out to have supernormal powers.

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