Randall Platt: 7 books

Randall Platt's Slangmaster™ presents 1813 slangisms about rotgut, guzzling, and puking your brains out. (Plus a few nice drinking toasts.) Search by term, date or type of booze slang and make your dialogue come alive. Slangmaster™ - for the color of our language. We don't speak, nor should we write, in black and white.

Winner of the Keystone State Reading AwardIt’s 1944, and much of the world is at war: Fourteen-year-old Teddy is waging her own private war against the world - especially against her twin brother and her perfect, and perfectly despised, mother. When their mother dumps the twins at their grandmother’s...

Cordelia Lu Hankins is half Caucasian, half Chinese - and all albino. She has grown up isolated from the world, with her distant father and a giant stepmother names Babe (after Paul Bunyan’s blue ox), in a remote lumber town in the Pacific Northwest. She is convinced she is ugly and that her father...

Every life has a cornerstone. Some are made of clay, some are made of rock, and a few are made of duty, honor and blood. It’s 1944, toward the end of the Second World War, but far away from the action. Ian McKenzie, a bright fifteen-year-old street kid ready to take anyone on, has been sent...

Just about everyone is incommunicado in the small, sleepy Oregon coastal town of Sea Park during winter. Until Pearl Harbor, that is, when it springs to patriotic life. But is Ruby Opal Pearl (a.k.a. Jewels) Stokes the only person to see what’s really happening here? Tommy Kasamoto, the one person...

A gripping historical fiction friendship story that will grab everyone by the heartstrings and never let go. A giant, a dwarf, and three doomed circus animals . . . By her fourteenth birthday, Babe Killingsworth measures 6ʹ9ʺ and weighs 342 pounds. In 1896, what other options does...

It’s 1939 in Poland and Arab (don’t call her Abra Goldstein) knows that being Jewish doesn’t pay. Neither does being a girl. No, Arab will tell you that claiming any people at all can get a person killed-and she’s not about to let this war take her down. So as the Nazi occupation goose...