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The Dream Watcher
Barbara Wersba
Paperback (Front Street, Oct. 1, 2004)Albert Scully is the quintessential miserable teenager. He considers himself the "All-American" failure until he meets Mrs. Orpha Woodfin, an eighty-year-old neighborhood eccentric who helps him to see the value of being an individual. Originally published in 1968 - the same year as Paul Zindel's The Pigman and the year after S.E. Hinton's The Outsider - The Dream Watcher heralded the beginning of books written specifically for young adults.
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Tunes for a Small Harmonica: A Novel
Barbara Wersba
Hardcover (Harpercollins Childrens Books, Oct. 1, 1976)A rebellious New York teenager, having fallen in love with her poetry teacher, plans to rescue him from poverty.
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Whistle Me Home
Barbara Wersba
Hardcover (Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), March 15, 1997)Although Noli Brown and TJ Baker are practically soulmates and both agree that they love each other, TJ wonders if he can truly love Noli in the way he is supposed to as he is gay and struggles with his feelings and wonders about how Noli would react if she were to find out.
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Fat, a Love Story
Barbara Wersba
Hardcover (Harpercollins Childrens Books, July 1, 1987)During the summer she is sixteen, overweight Rita Formica falls in love with the most beautiful young man she's ever seen and is determined to win him at all costs.
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Run Softly Go Fast
Barbara Wersba
Paperback (Bantam Books, June 1, 1972)Book by Wersba, Barbara
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Land of the Forgotten Beasts
Barbara Wersba
Hardcover (Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, )None
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Run Softly, Go Fast.
Barbara Wersba
Hardcover (Atheneum, June 1, 1970)After his father's funeral, a youth writes a history of their difficult relationship and learns about his father, himself, and love
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Beautiful Losers
Barbara Wersba
Hardcover (Harpercollins Childrens Books, March 1, 1988)Eighteen-year-old Rita, an overweight writer living in a Long Island town, is caught between love for her parents and love for Arnold, a man twice her age.
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Twenty-Six Starlings Will Fly Through Your Mind
Barbara Wersba
Library Binding (HarperCollins, Aug. 1, 1980)The 26 letters of the alphabet are strung together into a myriad of words and images.
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Whistle Me Home by Barbara Wersba
Barbara Wersba
Hardcover (Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), March 15, 1802)None
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The best place to live is the ceiling: A novel
Barbara Wersba
Hardcover (Harper & Row, March 15, 1990)A lonely teenager from Queens impulsively flies off to Switzerland on another man's passport and finds his life turning into a James Bond adventure.
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Run Softly, go Fast
Barbara Wersba
Mass Market Paperback (Bantam, March 15, 1972)None