Alden R. Carter

• Nov-1985
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• Sep-1986
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• Nov-1989
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Grade 7-12 Sheila's Dying is a deeply moving story of the illness and death of a young girl. Sheila was orphaned as an infant and now, at 16, is dying of uterine cancer. Except for the alcoholic grandmother she lives with and cares for, Sheila is all...

• Nov-1990
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• Nov-1992
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• Feb-1994
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• Nov-1994
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A coming-of-age story set in fire-ravaged northern Wisconsin explores a boy's struggle to find his own identity, deal with his partial Native American heritage, and come to terms with the raging forces within and around him....

• Nov-1995
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After losing everything they have during a trek through the wilderness, two boys, one of whom is a diabetic, must depend on their wits and courage in order to survive. By the author of Up Country and Dogwolf. ...

• May-1997
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In his diary, high-school baseball player Neil "Bull" Larsen re-evaluates his friendships, takes a close look at his family and girlfriend, and considers if there is anything more to life than baseball....

• Mar-1999
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In the course of this novel, 12-year-old Jeremy comes to know the Chippewa, apeople whose culture is fast disappearing in his part of Wisconsin; his heartis broken and his spirit is awakened; and he learns to appreciate the gentlerways of the past....

• Sep-2004
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A 100 "Best of the Best" ALA Best Books for Young Adults of the Last 25 Years, Up Country is a heart-wrenching, powerful story from an exceptionally talented writer. Carl knows he's playing with fire every time he fixes up a stolen car ster...

• Mar-2005
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December 30, 1862, outside Murfreesboro, Tennessee: the 43,000 men of General William Starke Roscecrans’s Army of the Cumberland faced the 38,000 Confederate soldiers of General Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee. It had been a dismal month for th...

• Aug-2008
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Renowned YA author Alden R. Carter offers up this laugh-out-loud, slice-of-high-school-life short-story collection, a Booklist Top 10 Sports Book of the Year for Youth. On "Jersey Day" the artsy academic girl wonders suspiciously which football playe...

• Aug-2008
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Andy has had enough of his dysfunctional family's impossible problems: his father's alcoholism, his mother's advoidance tactics, his older brother's condescension. He's walking away from it all--physically into the wilderness of the Wisconsin woods a...