Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!
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Fifteen-year-old Tucker's life changes in many ways when he meets the unusual overweight girl who gives his cat a home.
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M. E. Kerr
M. E. Kerr was a pen name of Marijane Meaker, who also published under several other names. Encouraged by Louise Fitzhugh, she began writing young adult literature as M. E. Kerr; Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! was her first book under that name. Her fiction for adolescents was recognized with the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement.
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Years covered1972–1986
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Gentlehands
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Buddy Boyle lives year-round with his family in unfashionable Seaville, New York, in a cramped little house on the bay. Skye Pennington spends the summers nearby on lavish estate complete with ocean view and a butler named Peacock. But Skye and Buddy fall in love anyway. And every once in a while they visit Buddy's estranged grandfather, who makes them forget they're from opposite sides of town. Then a reporter appears, searching for a man known as Gentlehands, a man with a horrifying past. Who is Gentlehands? And what is his connection to Buddy's handsome, aristocratic grandfather? The mystery threatens to shatter Buddy and Skye's relationship, and change their lives forever.
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Night Kites
3 editions: Print | eBook · 1986 | eBook · 2013
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Seventeen-year-old Erick Rudd expects a stable final year at Seaville High, followed by college and a future with his girlfriend. That path unravels when he secretly begins seeing his best friend's girlfriend. While guilt strains those relationships, Erick learns that his older brother Pete is seriously ill with AIDS. The two secrets force Erick and his family to confront betrayal, fear, love, and the courage required to live without hiding difference.
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eBook · Harper & Row · 1986 · English
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