Bruce Brooks Books In Order

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  1. Woodsie (1997)
  2. Zip (1997)
  3. Cody (1997)
  4. Boot (1998)
  5. Prince (1998)
  6. Shark (1998)
  7. Billy (1998)
  8. Dooby (1998)
  9. Reed (1998)
  10. Subtle (1999)
  11. Barry (1999)
  12. Woodsie, Again (1999)

Novels

  1. Midnight Hour Encores (1982)
  2. The Moves Make the Man (1984)
  3. No Kidding (1989)
  4. Everywhere (1990)
  5. What Hearts? (1992)
  6. Boys Will Be (1993)
  7. Asylum for Nightface (1996)
  8. Vanishing (1999)
  9. Throwing Smoke (2000)

Collections

  1. All That Remains (2001)
  2. Dolores (2002)

Picture Books

  1. Each A Piece (1998)

Non fiction

  1. Nature By Design (1991)
  2. Predator! (1991)
  3. Making Sense (1993)
  4. Those Who Love the Game (1994)
  5. NBA By The Numbers (1997)

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Midnight Hour Encores

On the RoadSibilance T. Spooner thinks she’s one of the world’s more promising cellists. The world thinks so too. Given up by her mother on the day she was born, she believes she has almost raised herself with just a bit of guidance from her unconventional father, Taxi. When Sib finally asks Taxi to take her to meet her mother for the first time, she knows it might mean breaking away from the man who has raised her. Finding your own path often means leaving those you love, and Sib is willing to take the risk. Yet as she and her dad wind their way across the country to San Francisco, Sib discovers she may not be as ‘self made’ as she thought. And as she learns more about the man she thought she knew, she finds out it’s not simply her music that makes her special, but also the love from the parent she might have to leave behind. 1986 Best Books for Young Adults ALA1987 Fanfare Honor List The Horn BookBest Books of 1986 SLJBest of the 80’s BLYoung Adult Choices for 1988 IRA1987 Teachers’ Choices IRA1987 Books for the Teen Age NY Public LibraryBest of the 80’s English Journal

The Moves Make the Man

For Bix Rivers, nothing is more important than the truth. His father is dead, his mother is in a mental hospital, and his stepfather ignores him. A devotion to truth is all he has left. When black basketball standout Jerome Foxworthy is chosen to integrate Bixs all white junior high school, the two outcasts form a strong friendship, and Jerome teaches Bix the fundamentals of shooting hoops. But Bix will not learn to fake. Fakes are lies, as Bix sees it. But the day will arrive when Bix has no choice but to put on the moves. If The Moves Make the Man, what will happen to Bix if he gives up the truth? The Moves Make the Man won the Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Fiction, and is a Newbery Honor Book, an ALA Notable Childrens Book, and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Alternately angry and hilarious, but always unflinchingly honest, The Moves Make the Man is a striking and unforgettable story.

Everywhere

The deep bond between a boy and his grandfather may be the only thing that can save the old man’s life when he suffers a heart attack. But first the boy must overcome his feelings of helplessness and guilt.

With the imaginative assistance of Dooley, the nephew of a local nurse who knows a mysterious ritual called ‘soul switching,’ the narrator discovers, in a reluctant flight to the farthest edges of faith, the miraculous and healing power of love.

In the best literary tradition of Truman Capote and Carson McCullers, award winning novelist Bruce Brooks tells this spellbinding tale with a compassionate understanding of the capacity of children to transcend pain with amazing grace.

What Hearts?

Recipient of a 1993 Newbery Honor, this novel is an achingly beautiful, powerfully rendered journey through childhood that is not to be missed, now available in a new edition with a striking new cover.

From an outstandingly perceptive writer, a moving portrait of a boy, observed at four revealing turning points. Pointer Review/Kirkus Reviews

Combines fast, exciting action with an astonishing ending that proves the power of the individual imagination. Starred Review/ALA Booklist

‘Asa possessed of rare sweetness, humor, and inner strength survives intact cruel tests of his integrity, intellect, and sense of decency. From an outstandingly perceptive writer, a moving portrait of a boy, observed at four revealing turning points.’ K. ‘Told with controlled imagery, insightful illumination of motive and the needs of his characters, Brooks has proven himself once again a master of language.’ BL.

1993 Newbery Honor Book
Notable Children’s Books of 1993 ALA
1993 Best Books for Young Adults ALA
1993 Fanfare Honor List The Horn Book
1993 Teachers’ Choices IRA
1993 Books for the Teen Age NY Public Library

Boys Will Be

An award winning writer presents a series of essays in which he examines the likes and dislikes, fears and attractions, hopes and worries of boys everywhere, as well as the nature of courage, heroism, and maturity. C. H. K. PW.

Vanishing

Alice just can’t stop crying. To her, it seems as if it should be simple. If your parents split up, you live with the one who understands you best. Alice’s father had always been the one to ‘get’ her. But somehow she had ended up living with her mom, who drank too much, and her stepfather, who didn’t like her and didn’t care who knew it. So when a bout with bronchitis lands her in the hospital, she decided she just can’t face going home again ever. What if she simply stops eating goes on a hunger strike? They would have to keep her there, wouldn’t they? It seems like the simplest solution, even when the hallucinations start, even when they kind of take over. But suppose she goes into a coma or dies? If that happens, she’ll have her new friend Rex, the mysterious boy who says he’s dying, but whose jaunty ways have brought Alice to life. Once again, Bruce Brooks tells an intriguing story that puts new twists on the oldest, biggest issues love, death, and taking charge of your own life as you move toward adulthood.

Throwing Smoke

Whiz loves playing baseball, but his team, the Breadhurst Newts, just isn’t up to snuff. Something has to change, especially after they lose a game to the Mudcats, the worst team around. That’s when Whiz gets an idea. It’s far fetched, its wild but it just might get the team what it needs. Why not create a character in the dark, dusty print shop where he works after school?Letter by letter, Whiz drops the metal type into place, then inks the press, lays down the parchment, and rolls the press. The next day Whiz heads for practice early, before anyone else is there yet he senses he is not alone…
. Children’s Pick of the List 2000 ABA

All That Remains

Cousins conspire to circumvent state burial laws when their beloved aunt dies of AIDS, and come up with a fiendishly clever plan to keep her out of a pauper’s grave. A slick teen takes his very unhip cousin under his wing to make a man of him after reluctantly making a promise to his dying uncle to do so, and finds out a lot about being true to oneself in the meantime. A trio of golfers must take on a fourth player a girl, no less who surprises them by having a fabulous drive, despite the fact that she refuses to take off her backpack. But that doesn’t begin to match their shock when they find out what her backpack contains. Can three strangers help her let go of her past? Is there magic in a foursome? Astonishing, shocking, and mesmerizing, each story in this collection is singular unto itself, but they all work together in the exploration of how people react to tragedy when it strikes…
and how they deal with what’s left behind. A daring, thought provoking collection as only two time Newbery Honor award winner Bruce Brooks could write it.

Dolores

Dolores is different. She heard ‘Lithium’ come on the radio and asked him to turn it up, and then turn it up again until it was really blasting, and she even song along with the chorus, ‘I love you, I’m not gonna crack,’ at the top of her little voice, which he bet no other seven year olds could come close to doing. Dolores is poised.’Mom, there are four spoons here! I’m really asking! Which one do I use now? God forbid I eat a thick soup with the bouillon spoon or something reserved for thin broths help me out!’Dolores is spunky.’I want to be a Central cheerleader because I like to make people scream!’Dolores is tough. She was terrified; she was furious. She let her anger burn her fear. She punched him smack in the nose as hard as she could. Shockingly beautiful, quirky, sarcastic, brave, and elusive, Dolores is always, quite simply,Dolores.

Nature By Design

Describes functional structures built by such animals as the beaver, termite, and tailorbird.

Making Sense

The author of The Moves Make the Man discusses the five senses seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching and how animals are blessed with a variety of equipment to use the senses.

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