Gerald Holt: 5 books

Meghan, Tony and Jack are convinced that theres something very strange going on at the local rodeo and it seems to involve the rodeo clowns. One of the clowns, despite his cheery-looking clown makeup is creepy and frightening. Meghan sees him sneak out of the Rodeo Show Tent and drop something shiny....

When eleven year old Tony falls sick with chicken pox he spends much of his time in the bedroom that he shares with his older brother, Jack, looking out of the bedroom window through his fathers binoculars. When Jack was sick he had observed the movements of two shady looking men who appeared to be...

While Ben and his sister, Emma, are exploring the salt marsh of Quicksand Bay, they make a sickening discovery and find a badly injured Marsh Hawk. They are about to take the hawk to CROW, a nearby wildlife rescue shelter, when they are confronted by a dirt-bike rider on a metallic-red machine. The...

When eleven year old Tony and his older brother, Jack are on the ferry to Galiano Island at the start of their summer holiday, Tony sees a pickpocket steal a wallet. The pickpocket, a girl about Tonys age is caught but the wallet cannot be found. The girl makes a daring escape when the ferry docks...

This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Berman's introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeburg, Jack Halberstam, B. Venkat Mani, and Imani Perry. To mark...