Dale Peck
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Sent to stay with their uncle in a ship-like home called Drift House, twelve-year-old Susan and her two younger stepbrothers embark on an unexpected adventure involving duplicitous mermaids, pirates, and an attempt to stop time forever.
3) Sprout
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Moving from Long Island to Kansas after his mother dies, a teenaged boy nicknamed Sprout is surprised to find new friends, a fascinating landscape, and romantic love.
4) What we lost
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Dale Peck Sr. grew up in a poverty-stricken home with an abusive mother and alcoholic father, but after finding love and contentment at his uncle's farm, his mother demands his return and makes him choose between his family and his future.
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
In this auspicious debut, Dale Peck weaves together two sets of stories to create a compelling portrait of an artist in our time. The first is told episodically by John, who flees an abusive father and becomes a hustler in New York City. It's 1982, and at the age of nineteen John falls in love with Martin, who soon becomes ill with AIDS. They leave New York for Kansas, where Martin dies two years later. In his struggle to regain his own health, John...
6) Shift
Author
Series
Gate of Orpheus trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Chandler Forrestal, a man whose life is changed forever when he is unwittingly dragged into a CIA mind-control experiment, develops a frightening array of mental powers. With his one-in-a-billion brain chemistry, Chandler's heightened perception uncovers a plot to assassinate President Kennedy. Chased across America by deadly forces in and out of government, will Chandler be able to harness his "shift" and rewrite history?