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    Snow Bound

    Author Harry Mazer
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    RH Childrens Books | Laurel Leaf
    On sale Dec 24, 2008 | 144 Pages | 9780307546890
    Grade 7 & Up
    Reading Level: Lexile 690L
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    At fifteen, Tony Laporte is what many people would call a throughly spoiled kid. He gets away with a lot because his parents want him to have all the things they never had. But when they surprise him by refusing to let him keep a stray dog he has found, Tony decides to teach them a lesson by running off in his mother's old Plymouth. Driving without a license in the middle of a severe snowstorm, he picks up a hitchhiker named Cindy Reichert, an aloof girl who has always had difficulty forming friendships. To impress Cindy, Tony tries to show off his driving skills and ends up wrecking the car in a very desolated area far from the main highway. After spending precious days bickering with each other and waiting for rescue that never comes, they finally realize that their lives are at stake and they must cooperate to survive. The question is--can they survive?
    Harry Mazer is an acclaimed author with numerous novels to his credit, including Snow Bound, Who Is Eddie Leonard? (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults), The Island Keeper, and Someone's Mother Is Missing. He and his wife, novelist Norma Fox Mazer, are the authors of The Solid Gold Kid (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and an IRA-CBC Children's Choice) and Bright Days, Stupid Nights. Harry is also the editor of the short story anthology Twelve Shots (an ALA Quick Pick), for which he wrote the story "Until the Day He Died." The Mazers have four grown children and divide their time between Jamesville, New York, and New York City. View titles by Harry Mazer

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    At fifteen, Tony Laporte is what many people would call a throughly spoiled kid. He gets away with a lot because his parents want him to have all the things they never had. But when they surprise him by refusing to let him keep a stray dog he has found, Tony decides to teach them a lesson by running off in his mother's old Plymouth. Driving without a license in the middle of a severe snowstorm, he picks up a hitchhiker named Cindy Reichert, an aloof girl who has always had difficulty forming friendships. To impress Cindy, Tony tries to show off his driving skills and ends up wrecking the car in a very desolated area far from the main highway. After spending precious days bickering with each other and waiting for rescue that never comes, they finally realize that their lives are at stake and they must cooperate to survive. The question is--can they survive?

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    Harry Mazer is an acclaimed author with numerous novels to his credit, including Snow Bound, Who Is Eddie Leonard? (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults), The Island Keeper, and Someone's Mother Is Missing. He and his wife, novelist Norma Fox Mazer, are the authors of The Solid Gold Kid (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and an IRA-CBC Children's Choice) and Bright Days, Stupid Nights. Harry is also the editor of the short story anthology Twelve Shots (an ALA Quick Pick), for which he wrote the story "Until the Day He Died." The Mazers have four grown children and divide their time between Jamesville, New York, and New York City. View titles by Harry Mazer

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