HarperChildrens

Fall 1999 Chapter Excerpts

 
 

Try a sample and see if you'd like to read the whole book!
Here are the first chapters* of some of our best new novels:

Freaky Friday
by Mary Rodgers

ESP TV
by Mary Rodgers

Summer Switch
by Mary Rodgers

The Bad Beginning
by Lemony Snicket

The Reptile Room
by Lemony Snicket

What Hearts
by Bruce Brooks

<---August 3 titles--> Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep
by Gail Carson Levine

Dave at Night
by Gail Carson Levine

A is for AARRGH!
by William J. Brooke

Blackwater
by Eve Bunting

Miranda's Last Stand
by Gloria Whelan

Dork in Disguise
by Carol Gorman

The Case of the Firecrackers
by Lawrence Yep

Incredible Animal Adventures
by Jean Craighead George

Bloomability
by Sharon Creech

Farewell to the Island
by Gloria Whelan

I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade
by Diane Lee Wilson

Lizard Flanagan, Supermodel??
by Carol Gorman

The Case of the Lion Dance
by Lawrence Yep

The Wizard of Oz Book and Charm
by L. Frank Baum

Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White

Stuart Little
by E. B. White

Stop Pretending
by Sonya Sones

Violet & Claire
by Francesca Lia Block

Bachelor Girl
by Roger Lea MacBride

Brookfield Days
by Doris Ettlinger

Missouri Bound
by Doris Ettlinger

Little House on the Prarie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Asylum for Nightface
by Bruce Brooks

Letters to Julia
by Barbara Ware Holmes

The Hanged Man
by Francesca Lia Block


©1999 HarperCollins Publishers

*Note: Due to copyright laws, "first chapters" as shown here are approximately the first 1000 words
(or 500 words, depending on the length of the book) from the first chapter. Please consult the final book for the entire first chapter.
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