New Releases by Richard Peck

How well do we know our best friends? They were the best of friends. Sixteen-year-old Buck Mendenhall first met Kate Lucas the summer before seventh grade. In eighth grade they made friends with the brilliant and wealthy newcomer, Trav Kirby. They didn''t seem to need anyone else. Mostly they looked forward to the good times shared at Kate''s house. it didn''t matter if their classmates wondered about them; no one could unravel their binding ties. At least that''s what they thought. When one of the trio finds the future too great a threat, the other two can only wonder: "How well did we know our best friend?" "With humanity, wit, and a quiet intensity, Peck''s novel depicts suicide as a turning point inward of the pressures in an alienated and violent society." -- "Booklist," starred review. A "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year.

For use in schools and libraries only. Spunky and slightly devious, Blossom Culp rides to fame on her ability to see ghosts, the future, and other places and soon discovers that she can become ghosts in other times.

Together, they won college football''s highest award. This is a true, memorable, compassionate story of courage and love between two brothers. In 1973, while John Cappelletti was winning the Heisman Trophy as the outstanding college football player in America, his younger brother Joey was suffering from leukemia. But John, now a running back for the Los Angeles Rams, had a very special medicine for Joey. It was called touchdowns. And John scored them in bunches because they were "Something for Joey." The story of the Cappelletti family is a story of courage you will never forget.

A young girl living on a Vermont farm relates the events of the day her uncle brought her a genuine "Junior G-man machine gun."

When teenage beauty Darlene Hoffmeister wins a beauty contest and is offered a glamorous life in New York City with her friend Verna, both girls have some major re-thinking to do about their lives and values.

Unaware that her father is involved with organized crime, Karen is kidnapped by his rivals.