Book Review: Are You In The House Alone? by Richard Peck

Are You In The House Alone? by Richard Peck Puffin, 2000 ISBN: 0141306939 Available: New and Used   Editor’s note: Are You In The House Alone? was first published in 1977. I first read it in 1985, and our review of it is one of the earliest we published. While it is dated, given current events, it […]

Book Review: Three Quarters Dead by Richard Peck

Dial, October 28, 2010 ISBN: 978-0803734548 Available: New   In 1973, when Richard Peck was just starting out as a writer, Robert Cormier’s book The Chocolate War, in which a student seized control of his high school from adult authority figures and brutally bullied his peers, changed YA literature forever. Three Quarters Dead is Peck’s contemporary response to […]