Have a Heart, Cupid Delaney


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A cupid-in-training is sent by the Love Bureau to New Jersey to match up two unlikely couples in time for the big high school dance.




Meet Your Match, Cupid Delaney


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A cupid-in-training who has been temporarily turned into a mortal girl faces her most difficult mission, to bring love and old-fashioned romance back to Woodside High in time for the junior-senior prom.







Go! Fight! Win!


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Hanson (American studies, U. of New Mexico) offers an broad overview of cheerleading and its place in American culture, looking at the cheerleader as a symbol invested with both negative and positive values. She touches on issues such as the social context of the institutionalization and adult control of cheerleading; the changing patterns of age, class, and gender of participants; and the development of cheerleading in professional sports in the 1960s. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




Books for You


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Presents an annotated bibliography of 1200 books for high school students, divided into such sections as Human Rights, Romance, War, Easy Reading, Outdoor Life and Travel, and Colleges. Includes author and title indexes and a directory of publishers.




Young People's Books in Series


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This volume describes and lists series published for young people from early elementary grades through high school. Fiction series from 1976 through 1990 (and new titles in existing series through 1991) are included, as well as nonfiction series, which are limited to in-print titles only.




The Three Loves of Charlie Delaney


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It begins!!! The world will now be introduced to Charlie Delaney. It is here Charlie falls in love for the first time. We all have experienced that first love; the love you never forget. The love that will always be on your mind and heart as you travel down the road of life. To read about Charlies first love is to relive that special time we all have felt a long time ago. To be young and in love for that first time and remember those nervous, awkward times. Charlie Delaney experience these innocent times with wonder and excitement but with fear and uncertainly at every corner. Experiencing new people, new ideas, taking on responsibility while the body makes changes and wonderful sensations are felt. Where the innocent world is introduced to the evil world. Now all of mankind will get to know Charlie Delaney and by doing so make the world better for all time.




The Two Worlds of Style Delaney


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Thematic Guide to Young Adult Literature


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Contemporary young adult literature is a relatively new genre. This guide provides an overview of the burgeoning field, focusing primarily on fiction. Each of the 32 chapters is devoted to a theme of special significance to young adults, and provides brief critical discussions of several related literary works. Chapters close with lists of fiction for further reading. An appendix groups works according to additional themes, and a selected bibliography cites relevant critical studies.




Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991


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Science fiction constitutes one of the largest and most widely read genres in literature, and this reference provides bibliographical data on some 20,000 science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction books, as well as nonfiction monographs about the literature. A companion to Reginald's Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1700-1974 (Gale, 1979), the present volume is alphabetically arranged by approximately 10,000 author names. The entry for each individual work includes title, publisher, date and place published, number of pages, hardbound or paperback format, and type of book (novel, anthology, etc.). Where appropriate, entries also provide translation notes, series information, pseudonyms, and remarks on special features (such as celebrity introductions). Includes indexes of titles, series, awards, and "doubles" (for locating volumes containing two novels). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.




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