"Brooks's fine first novel has a baskeball theme and plenty of action, but sport is merely the vehicle for delivering a serious story of friendship and madness." ' SLJ. 
 "Brilliant sportswriting and a trenchant examination of the friendship between narrator Jerome Foxworthy [an African-American seventh-grader] and Bix, a white boy in trouble." ' BL. 
 1985 Newbery Honor Book Notable Children's Books of 1984 (ALA) 1985 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) 1985 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction Best Books of 1984 (SLJ) 100 Favorite Paperbacks 1989 (IRA/CBC) "Best of the 80's" Young Adult Novels (English Journal)

The Moves Make the Man

Teen & Young Adult

BROOKS, Bruce

Historical Fiction

Harpercollins

A sixteen-year-old cellist and musical prodigy travels crosscountry with her father, a product of the 1960s, to meet her mother, who abandoned her as a baby.

Midnight hour encores

Harper&Row

A sixteen-year-old cellist and musical prodigy travels crosscountry with her father, a product of the 1960s, to meet her mother, who abandoned her as a baby.

Midnight Hour Encores

Literature & Fiction

In his twenty-first century society, fourteen-year-old Sam is allowed to decide the fate of his family after his mother is released from an alcohol rehabilitation center.

No Kidding

Harpercollins Childrens Books

In his twenty-first century society, fourteen-year-old Sam is allowed to decide the fate of his family after his mother is released from an alcohol rehabilitation center.

Afraid that his beloved grandfather will die after suffering a heart attack, a nine-year-old boy agrees to join ten-year-old Dooley in performing a mysterious ritual called soul switching.

Everywhere

Children's Books

The deep bond between a boy and his grandfather may be the only thing that can save the old man's life when he suffers a heart attack. But first the boy must overcome his feelings of helplessness and guilt.
With the imaginative assistance of Dooley, the nephew of a local nurse who knows a mysterious ritual called "soul switching," the narrator discovers, in a reluctant flight to the farthest edges of faith, the miraculous and healing power of love.
In the best literary tradition of Truman Capote and Carson McCullers, award-winning novelist Bruce Brooks tells this spellbinding tale with a compassionate understanding of the capacity of children to transcend pain with amazing grace.

What Hearts

After his mother divorces his father and remarries, Asa's sharp intellect and capacity for forgiveness help him deal with the instabilities of his new world

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Four interrelated stories focus on Asa's keen intelligence and ability for forgiveness in the face of his mother's emotional instability and his own unsettled life. By the author of No Kidding.

Rhyming text and illustrations with some cut-outs reveal that things are often more than they seem at first.

Each a Piece

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The Moves Make the Man

Midnight hour encores

Midnight Hour Encores

No Kidding

No Kidding

Everywhere

Everywhere

What Hearts

What Hearts

Each a Piece