Search Results: Youth Fiction from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

Racine WI.: Whitman Publishing., 1958. Whitman 1648.. Hard cover. Very good. A few small edge chips. Age-toning.. Sgroi, Tony (Illustrated by).. 1 276 p. Color illustrated paper over boards; 4.5 x 5.75 inches. 2-color artwork, right-hand pages plus frontispiece. Children/juvenile. Youth television Western series hero Jim Bowie wields his Bowie knife in fighting for justice in the old West.

New York.: Random House., 1962. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Prior owner had covered jacket w/ clear adhesive protection, sealing short tears. pp. 196-197, 200-201, ghost text, readable, reverse pages. Volume short edge tears.. Banbery, Fred (Illustrated by).. 1 Cover art duplicated on jacket, wraparound. vii, 206 p. 26 cm. Large sized print for youth. Full page black & green art and smaller chapter headers. On cover: "Eleven spooky stories for young people: Miss Emmeline takes off / Walter Brooks; The valley of the beasts / Algernon Blackwood; The haunted trailer / Robert Arthur; The upper berth / F. Marion Crawford; The wonderful day / Robert Arthur; The truth about Pyecraft / H.G. Wells; Housing Problem / Henry Kuttner; In a dim room / Lord Dunsany; Obstinate Uncle Otis / Robert Arthur; The Waxwork / A.M. Burrage; The Isle of Voices / Robert Louis Stevenson. Hitchcock likenesses with art.

Philomel Books, 2003. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Spotty soiling, wear to titles on spine, but very readable.. Elliot, David. 1 Glued binding. Cloth & Paper over boards. 448 p. Pen&ink chapter heading Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile.

Plattsburgh NY.: Tundra Books., 2005. First edition. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. New. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 221 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Undersea time travel adventure for youth. Greta Kovachi goes for a planned week with her scientist father to a laboratory habitat on the bottom of the ocean. An accident hurls them, other scientists and 3 more youths, into a nightmare billions of years into the future. The youths embark on a courageous quest, banding together as The Aquanauts, in a plan to save them all from being locked under the sea...forever. Toronto-born New Hampshire resident John Lunn had previously published 'The Mariner's Curse' youth suspense adventure novel. He brings to his writing the patience and technical mastery of his other professional life as a premier custom flute-maker, as well as his creative initiative as a community activist.

Firefly Paperbacks / A Scholastic Book Service., 1972. 2nd printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Back cover crease at angle; rough top spine edge. Clean inside.. Bradford, Ron. 1 Yellow and purple covers w/ colorful solar system, blue complex B-9. RARE: B-9 likes to eat tin cans, clocks, nails, bathtubs...You would too if you were from outer space. Find out how he becomes a hero and gets all he wants to eat. (back cover notes). Early recycling youth book.

New York.: Clarion Books / Houghton Mifflin., 1996. First edition. 2nd printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Near fine. Top right corner bump. Moderate sun-fade to jacket overlapping spine; lower back DJ wrinkle. Appears unread.. Hyman, Trina Schart (Jacket illustration by), and Iskra (Title calligraphy by).. 1 Off-white linen cloth over boards; ornate gold embossed title. 208 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Historical novel for youth: It's 1849, and unhappily, 12-year-old Lucy has moved with the family from Massachusetts and is helping her mother run a rough boarding house in a small California mining town. She takes comfort in books but want to return to New England.

A Yearling Book, 1994. First edition. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Minor paper age-toning.. Lee, Jody A (Cover illustration by). 0 211 p. plus 3 pages from "The Castle in the Attic" at back. As William turns 12, he is vertically challenged next to his best friend Jason. How can he prove himself? He has a magic token that will take them back again to the Middle Ages. Can he be heroic again?

New York.: An Avon Camelot Book by arr. w/ author., 1991. 2nd printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Near fine, light scuffing.. 1 Trade paperback. Illustrated cover, bullying scene, 2 youths. Glued binding. Audience: Children/juvenile. Youth fiction: Rocky's father thinks he's a "sissy" because he won't punch the bullying Tink O'Brien back each time O'Brien knocks him around. Rocky thinks fighting is stupid, and he doesn't want to injure his viola-playing hand. So he tells lies at home about his fat lip, but he's got to get creative about teaching O'Brien a lesson. Reading level 4.6.

Harper Paperbacks / HarperCollins., 1991. 2nd printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Smooth spine. Reading wear to covers. Age-toning.. Semel, Andrew (Cover photo by), and White, Timothy (Back cover photos by).. 1 Mass market paperback. Glued binding. Center B&W photo section. Audience: Children/juvenile; Young adult. Collectible American fan publicity, 1990s. Featuring lead fictional characters Brandon Walsh, Dylan McKay, and Brenda Walsh. Authorized edition of behind-the-scenes TV series based in California.

Troll Medallion / Troll Communications., 1994. First edition. 1st Medallion printing.. Trade paperback. Fine. Unmarked.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 137 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Youth Historical Fiction / Father, son relationships: Subtitle: "Tyler will do anything to bring his father home". At 12, Tyler sets off from home toward the Mexican border, searching for his Confederate father, who with others had refused to surrender at the end of the Civil War. En route southward, Tyler acquires a traveling companion, the dog Bigger.

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1976. Reprint. 6th PB printing (1970 1st). Wraps. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. Dennis, Wesley. 0 172 p. illus. 25 cm. Includes Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. Pictorial Cover.

New York: The Seabury Press, 1975. Presumed 1st, not stated.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Signed by previous owner. Light rubbing to DJ; Book clean and tight.. 0 202 p. includes Glossary; Continuum Book. Audience: General/trade. Green and gray cloth covered boards. LOST! Countering the pessimistic view of society in of Lord of the Flies; Shipwrecked young people work to build a humane society while resolving social and technical problems toward survival. New Zealand native O'Neill, a Roman Catholic priest, authored this volume while a teacher at Holy Cross in NZ, and was a lecturer on sociology and community development.

Laurel Leaf / Dell by arr. w/ Holiday House., 1987. First edition. 1st Laurel Leaf printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Light cover edge wear. single spine crease.. 1 Mass market paperback. Glued binding. Audience: Children/juvenile; Young adult. 218 p. Cover subtitle: "A spine-tingling adventure across the high Andes". Paula's explorer father takes her out of school to climb the mountains of Peru in search of a lost Incan city. This trip is different than others with her dad. The deeper into the jungle they delve, mystery and danger surround them like a fog. Their native guide dies. A mule is lost. Will her dad make better decisions? Will they survive?

Puffin Books., 1986. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor edge wear. Prior owner short note last page.. Blake, Quentin (Cover illustration by).. 1 Trade paperback. 176 p. Inside sketches by author; B&W photos from Dahl collection. Autobiographical classic Dahl, written for the youthful, still enthralling readers of all ages. Norwegian-born Roald Dahl, 1916-1990, here reveals what happened to him in the Great Mouse Plot of 1924, among other important events.

New York.: Puffin Books, 1992. Trade paperback. Fine.. Lewin, Ted (Cover art by).. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. 143 p. 20 cm. Audience: Children/juvenile. Youth fiction set on the fictional Domingo, Taylor, and Barnett islands based on the real South and North Carolina coastal islands and Cape Fear river area. History recounts that many of the region's residents descend from the first slaves liberated there who became property owners when American Civil War Union troops chased off the plantation owners. Called "Gullah", those who worked hard and paid their taxes passed on the land to their descendants. In this story, Quanamina is grandmother to Zarah, who comes to stay while her nightclub performing mother goes on tour. Will young Zarah, who loves to sing and dance, learn to understand her proud, strong "old-fashioned" grandmother?

New York.: Scholastic Book Services., 1948. Later printing. TX 422.. Trade paperback. Very good. Age-toning. Well-bound, smooth spine.. Lupo, Dom (Illustrations by).. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. Audience: Children/juvenile. Youth historical fiction set in 1860 along the Underground Railroad to freedom for escaping slaves, 19th century U.S. A secret route, both boys central to this story could be punished if caught by slave hunters. Jim likely would be punished and returned to slavery. David, 12 and white, would face 5 years in jail if caught helping Jim.

New York.: Harper & Row / A Harper Trophy Book., 1972. 1st Trophy Edition 1971. 3rd printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Clean text pages; light soiling to covers; spine creasing.. Browning, Colleen (Cover by). 1 Trade paperback, color illustrated cover: pastoral scene. 194 p. 19 cm. Audience: Children/juvenile; Young adult. Family fiction for young teens. Reviewed by the N.Y. Times as having "an appealing heroine--sensitive, articulate, sturdy and level-headed", and A.L.A. Booklist noted, "characters and family relationships are uncommonly well-drawn". It is a year of sudden change for this family of 6, featuring Catty Reed. Her brother dies at war in Vietnam, her father loses his job, and the Reeds are moving 1000 miles away to live at Uncle Henry's Vermont inn. At back, Harper Trophy list of published books.

Fictional romance woven around the hospital field and care open to teen-agers. Drawn from research composite info to introduce careers in hospitals.

New York.: A Guild Book / Criterion Books., 1958. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Top red page block spattered as with raindrops. Clean. Sturdy. Near fine save for library pocket, markings. Library binding.. Weare, Tony (Illustrated by).. 1 Includes illustrations. Tan sealed cloth over boards. Black titles. Front red and black horse-drawn circus wagon, man & youth. 251 p. 5.75x8.5in. Bold B&W artwork. Bibliography. Fiction for youth set between 1835-1838 when family tenting circus life was developing interestingly. The lead character is a trick horseback rider.

Scholastic Paperbacks, 1997. 3rd printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Front right lower corner crease. Clean. Minor cover wear.. Di Fiori, Larry (Pictures by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Youth fiction: 9 stories of the peculiar happenings at WT Melon Elementary School, in the classroom at the end of the hall, a wacky and weird bunch.