Sarah Weeks – författare

Now a major motion picture starring Alfre Woodard, Jessica Collins, John Heard, Jacinda Barrett, Cloris Leachman, and Talitha Bateman—in theaters October 2017!

From acclaimed author Sarah Weeks comes a touching coming-of-age story about a young girl who goes on a cross-country journey to discover the truth about her parents, which the New York Times called ""a remarkable novel."" Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead''s When You Reach Me and Ali Benjamin''s The Thing About Jellyfish.

She doesn''t know when her birthday is or who her father is. In fact, everything about Heidi and her mentally disabled mother''s past is a mystery. When a strange word in her mother''s vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi sets out on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.

Far away from home, pieces of her puzzling history come together. But it isn''t until she learns to accept not knowing that Heidi truly arrives.

Jamie Reardon has always heard that bad things come in threes. So after his cat, Mister, dies, his father leaves, and his aunt Sapphy has an accident that causes her memory to develop a skip, Jamie hopes his life will go back to being as normal as cornflakes. But unfortunately there''s one more bad thing in store for Jamie -- something he''d give anything to be able to forget -- and this one leaves him feeling like a stranger to himself. Jamie tries in vain to find the magic trigger that will help Sapphy''s memory jump the scratch, like the needle on her favorite Frank Sinatra record, but in the end it''s Aunt Sapphy who, along with a curious girl named Audrey Krouch, helps Jamie unravel the mysteries of memory and jump the scratch in his own life.

Sarah Weeks''s poignant characters and powerful prose come together in a story that is both heart wrenching and inspiring -- another gem from the award-winning author of So B. It.

A Junior Library Guild Selection

Drip! Drop!

Plip! Plop!

“Oh, no!” cried Pip Squeak.

“I’ve got a leak!”

A nighttime rainstorm sends Pip Squeak scrambling to catch the drips pouring through his leaky roof. But the drops just won’t stop, and soon it’s wetter inside the house than out!

Sarah Weeks’s spirited story and Jane Manning’s dazzling pictures will delight beginning readers as they follow Pip Squeak’s comic adventure to the very last drop!

Rub-a-dub-dub! Chub the fish loves to scrub in his tub. One day his friends come to call. They want to splish and splash too. Can a tub so small hold them all?

A brush with the supernatural?

A rock concert?

A reunion?

A poolside revelation?

The need to know what''s up?

The confessions of a friend?

The dream of escape?

A sick pet?

An English assignment?

The rear-window view of a murder next door?

The search for the mother you never met?

Now a major motion picture starring Alfre Woodard, Jessica Collins, John Heard, Jacinda Barrett, Cloris Leachman, and Talitha Bateman—in theaters October 2017! 

From acclaimed author Sarah Weeks comes a touching coming-of-age story about a young girl who goes on a cross-country journey to discover the truth about her parents, which the New York Times called "a remarkable novel." Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead''s When You Reach Me and Ali Benjamin''s The Thing About Jellyfish.

She doesn''t know when her birthday is or who her father is. In fact, everything about Heidi and her mentally disabled mother''s past is a mystery. When a strange word in her mother''s vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi sets out on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.

Far away from home, pieces of her puzzling history come together. But it isn''t until she learns to accept not knowing that Heidi truly arrives.

Jamie Reardon has always heard that bad things come in threes. So after his cat, Mister, dies, his father leaves, and his aunt Sapphy has an accident that causes her memory to develop a skip, Jamie hopes his life will go back to being as normal as cornflakes. But unfortunately there''s one more bad thing in store for Jamie—something he''d give anything to be able to forget—and this one leaves him feeling like a stranger to himself. Jamie tries in vain to find the magic trigger that will help Sapphy''s memory jump the scratch, but in the end it''s Aunt Sapphy who, along with a curious girl named Audrey Krouch, helps Jamie unravel the mysteries of memory and jump the scratch in his own life.

From the author of So B. It, a super charming middle-grade Napoleon Dynamite with heart - the tale of a very average boy who''s put in his school''s spotlight when his averageness appeals to a TV show.

Oggie Cooder has a talent -- he can charve better than anyone else in Truman Elementary School. (Charving, for the uninitiated, is the carving of a piece of cheese with one''s teeth.) Oggie doesn''t think this is anything special -- but his whole school will soon be disagreeing with him. Because after he inadvertently charves during a nationwide hunt for unusual talents, his charving puts him on the path to fame and fortune. Suddenly, he''s the star of the school . . . but he''s not sure that he wants to shine that way. This is Sarah Weeks at her best -- funny, clever, and kid-friendly.

Oggie Cooder returns. . .this time showing what a party animal he can be (birthday party animal, that is)!

Oggie Cooder has never set foot (or swim fin) in his neighbor Donnica Perfecto''s swimming pool. But now he has his chance - it''s Donnica''s birthday, and her mom has forced her to invite Oggie to the pool party! Donnica, though, isn''t about to let this happen. She has a plan to keep Oggie away. But what she doesn''t count on is the power of Oggie''s charving, an unexpected visit from a local rock band, a creative use of a cherry picker, a dog that tweets like a bird, and a boy in a bear suit whose identity will change everything when it''s revealed.