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My WorksTHAT HORSE WHISKEY
When Lainey doesn't get the horse her father promised her for her thirteenth birthday, she offers to work at a nearby riding stable in exchange for free riding time. She's given the task of training a stubborn horse that won't go more than a quarter of a mile with a rider. Noone thinks she can do it, but her success is spectacular and the results please everyone. GHOST BROTHER. Clarion Books, 1990
Twelve-year-old Wally's older brother, Jon-o, has been killed in an accident. But his spirit reappears when Wally least expects it to give his younger brother advice and support. Wally needs all the support he can get, for his father is dead, too, and domineering Aunt Flo has come to spend the summer with Wally and his bereaved mother. Wanting to be like the daring Jon-o, Wally tries to become good enough at skateboarding to enter a neighborhood competition. His mother is opposed to it, but Jon-o's ghost eggs Wally on. When the day of the competition arrives, nothing goes the way Wally had planned. Will he ever manage to equal Jon-o's success in athletics and with people?  The text you type here will appear directly below the image MAGIC OF THE GLITS, available at Backinprint.com
Jeremy is sure his summer at Cape Cod is going to be terrible. It's bad enough having a cast on his leg that means he can't run or swim or enjoy the beach with his regular friends. But to be stuck taking care of a dumb seven-year-old girl, while his mom is busy painting and his father is back in the city - he can't think of anything worse. Once she has arrived, though, Jeremy has to admit that Lynette isn't bad company. To entertain her, he invents the Glits, magical creatures who can grant wishes. When he learns that her mother was killed in an accident and that her stepfather doesn't know what to do with her, he begins to worry about what will happen to Lynette at the summer's end. It seems to Jeremy that magic may be the only way to solve her problems. EDDIE'S BLUE-WINGED DRAGON/iUniverse., 2004
School was hard for a kid with cerebral palsy like Eddie with a bully after him and a sixth grade teacher who couldn't understand his speech. Besides, Eddie needed a gift for his little sister's sixth birthday. He and his friend Gary discovered a great gift, a glass and brass blue-winged dragon, in the Treasure Shop. But the dragon scared his little sister. Then, after Eddie decided to keep the dragon for himself, strange things began to happen. Could the dragon be going after Eddie's enemies? WINNING. Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999
Vicky loves tennis and wishes Brenda, who's on the 8th grade tennis team, would hit with her sometimes. But when Brenda finally accepts Vicky as a worthy tennis buddy, Vicky's relationship with her closest friend, the totally non athletic Reggie, is endangered. How do you find the time for your friends when you need to devote it to your passion? MORE THAN A HORSE. Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997
Leeann has to get the crochety head wrangler at the Arizona guest ranch where she now lives to let her ride the spirited Sassy. She also gets involved in the lives of some unusual middle school classmates and finds herself participating in a rodeo for special needs kids. In addition Leeann experiences her first romance. YOUN HEE & ME. Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995
Adding twelve year old Youn Hee to their family causes much more trouble than Caitlin and her mother expected. Youn Hee doesn't approve of the way her five year old little brother is being raised in his American family. Youn Hee holds her Korean heritage dear and doesn't approve of a lot of things American, not the least of which is her same age American sister, Caitlin. WILLIE, THE FROG PRINCE. Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994
Eleven year old Willie can't please his perfectionist father. If he isn't forgetting his chores or bringing home poor grades because he can't concentrate, his irrepressible dog, Booboo,is getting him in trouble. When a new girl, Marla, shows up in school, Willie tries to impress her, but as they become friends he discovers she has more serious problems than he has. Can Willie help Marla as well as himself? DADDY'S CLIMBING TREE. Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Co., 1993
Jessica can't believe that her lovable father has vanished from the world in a hit and run driving accident. She takes her sensible little brother with her through the state forest to find her father in the home where they used to live. There in the old climbing tree, what she finds is the strength to face what is. THE SHELL LADY'S DAUGHTER, available at Backinprint.com
"Lately it's begun to scare me that I'm my mother's best friend." Walking along the beach in the hot Florida sun, fourteen-year-old Kelly thinks about her mother a lot. There are no other kids around, and the routine of her grandparents' household is fitted to the needs of her senile grandfather. Kelly has plenty of time to wonder why her father shipped her off to Florida. She doesn't understand what is the matter with her mother that she has to stay in the hospital, or why her disapproving grandmother doesn't want to answer her questions. As she remembers her mother's sad stories about shell ladies, Kelly realizes they are more than just fairy tales. For months there have been trouble signals, signs that she and her father haven't wanted to see. Is it her fault, Kelly wonders. Has she failed he darling mother? And which should come first, her mother's needs or her own struggle for independence? |
NOVELS BY C. S. ADLER YOU MIGHT HAVE READ: SAVING DOVE, Scholastic Books, 2003 NO PLACE CAT. Clarion/ ONE UNHAPPY HORSE. " " 2001 WINNING. " " 1999 NOT JUST A SUMMER CRUSH, Clarion Books/ MORE THAN A HORSE. " " 1997 HER BLUE STRAW HAT. Harcourt Brace & Co., 1997 WHAT'S TO BE SCARED OF, SUKI? Clarion Books/ COURTYARD CAT. " " 1996 YOUN HEE & ME. Harcourt Brace, 1995 THAT HORSE WHISKEY. Clarion Books/ WILLIE THE FROG PRINCE " " 1994 DADDY'S CLIMBING TREE. " " 1993 TUNA FISH THANKSGIVING. " " 1992 A TRIBE FOR LEXI. Macmillan Publ. Co., 1991 MISMATCHED SUMMER. Putnam & Grosset Publ. Co., 1991 GHOST BROTHER. Clarion Books/ HELP, PINK PIG! Putnam Publishing Co., 1990 THE LUMP IN THE MIDDLE. Clarion Books/ ONE SISTER TOO MANY. Macmillan Publ. Co., 1988 EDDIE'S BLUE WINGED DRAGON. Putnam Publ. Co., 1988 IF YOU NEED ME. Macmillan Publ. Co., 1988 ALWAYS AND FOREVER FRIENDS. Clarion Books/ CARLY'S BUCK. " " 1987 KISS THE CLOWN. " " 1986 (y.a.) SPLIT SISTERS. Macmillan Publ. Co., 1986 GOOD-BYE, PINK PIG. Putnam Publ. Co., 1985 WITH WESTIE AND THE TIN MAN. Macmillan Publ. Co., 1985 BINDING TIES. Delacorte Publ. Co., 1985 (y.a.) FLY FREE. Putnam Publ. Co., 1984 SHADOWS ON LITTLE REEF BAY. Clarion Books/ ROADSIDE VALENTINE. Macmillan Publ. Co., 1983 (y.a.) GET LOST LITTLE BROTHER. Clarion Books/ THE SHELL LADY'S DAUGHTER. Putnam Publ. Co., 1983 SOME OTHER SUMMER. Macmillan Publ. Co., 1982 THE ONCE IN A WHILE HERO. Coward McCann/ THE EVIDENCE THAT WASN'T THERE. Clarion Books/ FOOTSTEPS ON THE STAIRS. Delacorte Publ. Co., 1982 SHELTER ON BLUE BARNS ROAD. Macmillan Publ. Co., 1981 DOWN BY THE RIVER. Coward McCann Inc., 1981 (y. a.) THE CAT THAT WAS LEFT BEHIND. Clarion Books/ IN OUR HOUSE SCOTT IS MY BROTHER. Macmillan Publ. Co., 1980 THE SILVER COACH. Coward McCann Inc., 1979 MAGIC OF THE GLITS. Macmillan Publ. Co., 1979 (now iuniverse.com) |
