Childress, Mark

One Mississippi : a novel by Mark Childress( Book )
14 editions published between 2006 and 2011 in English and held by 1,832 libraries worldwide
When Daniel Musgrove's troubled family moves to Mississippi just before his junior year, he is appalled. On top of the usual teenage humiliations, he now has to learn to say "y'all" and "Co-Cola" or risk being ostracized as a Yankee. But Daniel's loneliness fades when he meets fellow outsider Tim Cousins. You only need one best friend, he figures, to make it through high school alive. Daniel and Tim become inseparable, sharing a fascination with ridicule, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, and Arnita Beecham, the most bewitching girl at Minor High. The boys join the cast of a bouncy evangelical musical. They take their dates to the prom in matching sky blue tuxedos. But then things start to go terribly wrong. The friends' feud with the school bully gets out of hand. They commit a small crime that grows larger and larger, and threatens to engulf the whole town.--From publisher description.

Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress( Book )
44 editions published between 1993 and 2009 in 7 languages and held by 1,793 libraries worldwide
The tale of Peejoe, an orphan boy who comes of age during a racially restless summer in the Alabama, and his aunt Lucille, who jumps at the chance to escape her life for a role on the "Beverly Hillbillies."

Georgia Bottoms : a novel by Mark Childress( Book )
8 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 1,488 libraries worldwide
Georgia Bottoms, a Southern belle who keeps six lovers--none of whom know of the others--so she can maintain a lavish lifestyle, finds her ruse crumbling when a married preacher she has been seeing plans to confess their affair in front of his congregation.

Tender : a novel by Mark Childress( Book )
18 editions published between 1990 and 1998 in 4 languages and held by 1,143 libraries worldwide
Leroy Kirby, an Elvis-like singer and musician from Mississippi, transforms himself from a guitar-playing redneck into a rock-'n-roll legend, moving from recording sessions and appearances on Ed Sullivan to wild nights in the fast lane of the recording industry.

Gone for good by Mark Childress( Book )
6 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and French and held by 748 libraries worldwide
After flying into a thunderstorm, rock singer Ben Willis crashes his plane on a magic island. The place is populated by famous people who have come to disappear, among them Amelia Earhart. A look at the world of celebrities.

A world made of fire by Mark Childress( Book )
13 editions published between 1984 and 2008 in English and held by 712 libraries worldwide

V for Victor : a novel by Mark Childress( Book )
7 editions published between 1988 and 1998 in English and held by 673 libraries worldwide
Victor, a sixteen-year-old boy in Alabama in 1942, is sent to care for his dying grandmother on a lonely island in Mobile Bay. War is everywhere, and suddenly Victor is playing unforeseen roles--now hostage, now pursuer--in the perilous war at home.

Joshua and the big bad blue crabs by Mark Childress( Book )
1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 298 libraries worldwide
Joshua sets off to deliver a huckleberry pie to his grandmother and he and the pie are kidnapped by a mob of mean-tempered crabs.

Joshua and Bigtooth by Mark Childress( Book )
1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 216 libraries worldwide
The tiny shiny baby alligator Joshua brings home from a day fishing grows into a big alligator whose future must be decided.

Henry Bobbity is missing and it is all Billy Bobbity's fault by Mark Childress( Book )
1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 103 libraries worldwide
In this fantasy tale Billy Bobbity banishes his brother from their messy room but soon regrets his action and begins the search for the missing Henry.