Marilyn Sachs

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1968
  • Latest Book:
    March 2015
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Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • Veronica Ganz

    Veronica Ganz is a bully. She has beaten up everybody in all her classes and has never been challenged…until little Peter Wedemeyer, who only comes up to her shoulder, moves into the neighborhood. Taunting, teasing and always one step ahead of her ...

  • Peter and Veronica

    Peter Wedemeyer’s former enemy, Veronica Ganz, became his best friend. Together they explored their neighborhood on rollerskates and challenged each other to do crazy things. Peter’s mother called Veronica a “troublemaker” and his friends tho...

  • The Bears' House

    A Perfect Place To Live Fran Ellen loves the Bears' House more than anything in the world. It sits in the back of her fourth grade class and it's a wonderful place for Fran Ellen to visit. Her good friends Goldilocks and The Three Bears always mak...

  • The Truth About Mary Rose

    Mary Rose was proud to be named after her aunt, because her aunt had been a heroine, saving the lives of everyone in the apartment building -- before dying in the fire. But not everyone thought the first Mary Rose was a heroine. Young Mary Rose overh...

  • Dorrie's Book

  • Matt's Mitt

  • A December tale

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  • A Secret Friend

  • Hello...Wrong Number



  • Class Pictures

  • Beach Towels

  • Underdog

    Orphaned eleven-year-old Izzy is shipped off to San Francisco, to stay with an uncle and his wife who plan to send her to boarding school. Izzy’s memory about her past is dim. Why did her father hate her uncle so much? How did her mother die? And w...

  • Baby Sister

    After living so many years in the shadow of her beautiful, bright, vivacious older sister, Cass, Penny must build a life of her own after Cass goes to college and finds their relationship threatened by a new romance...

  • Fran Ellen's House

  • Almost Fifteen

  • Box Sisters and Friends

  • Fourteen

    A MOST UNLIKELY PAIR My mother has just finished writing her fourteenth book -- one for each year of my life. They've all been about me in one horrible way or another, and I hated them all. Each time, she promised the main character would not resemb...

  • Just Like a Friend

  • Matt's Mitt and Fleet-Footed Florence

    In the first of these two baseball stories, the mitt given at Matt's birth by his errant uncle possesses unusual qualities which shape his life. In the sequel, the fleet-footed star of the North Dakota Beavers meets her match when she encounters Yank...



  • At the Sound of the Beep

    Distraught at the thought of their parents' divorcing, a brother and sister run away from home and take up residence in Golden Gate Park, where they encounter many homeless people and hear there is a murderer loose among them....

  • What My Sister Remembered

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    Everything is wrong! It's been eight years since Molly has seen her older sister Beth. The girls were adopted by different families when their parents were killed in a car crash. Now Beth is coming for a visit, and Molly is so excited she can hard...

  • Circles

    Beebe Clarke and Mark Driscoll both live with single parents in San Francisco. They even go to the same high school -- but they’ve never met. Beebe is earnestly interested in Shakespeare and acting, and Mark is deeply involved with astronomy. Both ...

  • Thirteen Going on Seven

    When her twin sister begins to assert her individuality and her grandmother suddenly dies, thirteen-year-old Dezzey finds some comfort in her relationships with her grandfather and a new friend and in an interest in the environment....

  • Call Me Ruth

  • Ghosts in the Family

    Alone in the world after the death of her mother, Gabriella Russell seeks out her father's family, who had disinherited him after he had married a Mexican woman, and learns to face the ghosts of her family....

  • Another Day

    Fourteen-year-old Olivia copes with the breakup of her parents' marriage, the death of her grandfather, and her best friend's transfer to another school by adopting a neglected pup and learning to take responsibility for her own life....

  • Surprise Party

    Feeling overshadowed by her mischievous younger brother despite her many special achievements, Genevieve decides to get her parents' attention once and for all by throwing them an anniversary bash, with chaotic results....

  • JoJo and Winnie

    JoJo and Winnie, two headstrong sisters with very different ideas about having fun, find that sisterhood is no picnic--but both realize that when you need someone to count on, there's nobody better than your sister....

  • JoJo and Winnie Again



  • Laura's Luck

    Laura knows she won't be happy at camp...but could she be wrong? In the second of three books about a poor family living in the Bronx in the 1940s, Laura, the older sister, has to cope with the pleasures and pains of going off to camp....

  • Amy Moves In

    The first in a series of highly praised books about a poor, Jewish family living in the Bronx in the 1940s. Amy moves into a new neighborhood, and learns to choose the right kind of friends, and the consequences of lying....

  • Amy and Laura

    Sisters stick together—don't they? In the final book in a series about a poor family living in the Bronx in the 1940s, two sisters come to grips with their own envy, resentment and love for each other....

  • The Four Ugly Cats in Apartment 3D

    Lily is surprised to discover that Mr. Freeman--who has a reputation for being a mean, old man--is actually a kind man who cares deeply for his four ugly cats, but when he dies suddenly and the other tenants look to give the cats away, Lily gets invo...

  • A Pocket Full Of Seeds

    Nicole Nieman had never really thought about being Jewish. Now, with the Nazis occupying France, refugees escaping to the border with Switzerland frequently stay with her family. Should they go, too? Then came the day when Nicole returned home to fin...

  • Lost in America


    "'You need to learn to smoke,' Anne-Marie said firmly. 'It makes you look sophisticated. Humphrey Bogart smokes, Lauren Bacall smokes, and all the famous artists, like Picasso -- at least I think he smokes. We have to make a real American girl ou...

  • Fat Girl

    Jeff Lyons can't stand Ellen de Luca, the fat girl in his ceramics class. She's huge, clumsy, can't throw a pot to save her life, and stares at Jeff all the time. But he's a "nice guy" and feels terrible when Ellen overhears his hurtful remarks about...

  • First Impressions

    "I read on. And then it happens. On page 89. Mary is humiliated, and I know I have to step in. There she is, in an ill-fitting, wine-colored gown that doesn't do anything for her mousy complexion, gathering up her music, when I pass by, and spill my ...

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Marilyn Sachs has published 37 books.

Marilyn Sachs does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, First Impressions, was published in March 2015.

The first book by Marilyn Sachs, Veronica Ganz, was published in April 1968.

No. Marilyn Sachs does not write books in series.
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