Jerome Brooks

• Jan-1982
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After flying alone to Chicago to visit his cousin, a boy crippled by polio gains a new sense of freedom and becomes overconfident about his ability to ride The Big Dipper, the frightening roller coaster at Dreamland, USA....

• Mar-1992
• / General Fiction
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Infatuated with the teacher who placed her in an honors program, fifteen-year-old Hope becomes spokesman for the gifted students when trouble appears to be simmering between that teacher and another in the program....

• Jun-2000
• / General Fiction
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Make Me A Hero chronicles the struggle to survive of the forgotten generation: those too young to fight in World War II, but not old enough to have survived it unaffected by the detritus gathering in its wake.The ALA Booklist says, Brooks' portr...

• Jun-2000
• / General Fiction
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Only at its most simple level is The Testing of Charlie Hammelman a story about a young man fearful of not graduating from high school because he cant swim.More meaningfully, life, like a body of water with its currents and tides, its hidden obstacle...

• Sep-2000
• / General Fiction
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Through its two major metaphors, nakedness and winter, this story opens with a Jake Ackerman roughly three years older than he was at the end of Make Me a Hero. But in a wintry world where everywhere he turns he seems to need someone to express love ...