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Teachers/Librarians: Interested in having Carl Deuker make a "virtual" visit to your school? Click on the link above for information or email me at cdeuker@gmail.com

School Visit Information

Teachers/Librarians: AT THE RISK of sounding sanctimonious, the "carbon footprint" aspect of flying to visit schools makes me uncomfortable. So, I'll be glad to do "virtual" visits with classrooms not in the Seattle area, but I'm going to limit in-person visits to Puget Sound.

Schools will open again, won't they?

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And now.

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What I'm Reading

Stories of the Sahara, by Sanmao

Sanmao: author, adventurer, pioneer. Born in China in 1943, she moved from Chongqing to Taiwan, Spain to Germany, the Canary Islands to Central America, and, for several years in the 1970s, to the Sahara.

Series of stories about her experiences there--I visited the Sahara on a trip to Morocco, so the book caught my eye. Very good so far

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A thriller . . . available now. Nominated as YA Book of the Year in Texas. Click to buy and get free shipping and gift wrapping.

Interview with Carl Deuker

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Other on-line bookstores

Click to buy from UW Bookstore Free shipping

BACK IN PRINT! YA Book of the year in Pennsylvania, Nebraska, and Tennessee. A paperback edition is available April 1, 2007 from Little, Brown. Amazon.com is taking orders now.

Click to buy from an independent bookseller. Young Readers Choice 'Book of Year' nominee.
Winner of Golden Sower Award 2006.

Click to buy from UW Bookstore. Winner of Golden Sower Award

A Blue Ribbon Book
BCCE. Click to buy with free shipping.

Named Book of the Year in South Carolina and one of the 100 best young adult novels of the last ten years. Click to buy from an independent bookseller.

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Young adult novels by
Carl Deuker

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Available Now!

Audio version also available.

Laz has a major league arm, but how can he get a major league team to look at him?

CLICK TO HEAR THE BACKSTORY OF GOLDEN ARM.

Three minute video.

Click to hear a section of Golden Arm read aloud by the author

Short video (6:20)

When his time comes, will Brock find the courage he needs?

CLICK TO HEAR A SHORT SELECTION FROM GUTLESS

Short video (3:00).

Swagger is now available in paperback and hardcover

HHS Pirate Librarian Book Talk introduction to Swagger

Many thanks. This is a much better "book talk" than I could ever have done.

Click to hear a short selection from Swagger read aloud by Carl Deuker

Short (4:00) video

To buy Payback Time, Carl Deuker's latest novel, please click on the cover.

Gym Candy

Gym Candy--the backstory

Carl Deuker describes in three minutes where the ideas for Gym Candy came from.

Runner

YouTube book trailer

Click to see book trailer for High Heat

Night Hoops is out in a new edition with excellent paper and print quality. Many thanks to Graphia for the fine work.

Novels

FOOTBALL NOVELS

FOOTBALL NOVELS: GYM CANDY (Winner of Iowa YA Book of the Year Award), PAYBACK TIME, GUTLESS

BASEBALL NOVELS

GOLDEN ARM, HIGH HEAT, PAINTING THE BLACK, HEART OF A CHAMPION

THRILLER/MYSTERY

RUNNER AND PAYBACK TIME

Chance knows what he's doing is risky, but it's only for a short time. Nothing can really go wrong . . . or can it?

BASKETBALL NOVELS

SWAGGER, NIGHT HOOPS, ON THE DEVIL'S COURT

A dramatic and accurate portrayal of the game of baseball and life.

Young Adult Fiction

Night Hoops--Winner of Golden Sower Award (Nebraska)

A life on the brink. . . A basketball season to remember.

Painting the Black

For Ryan giving up baseball now would mean getting off the most exciting ride of his life.

Heart of a Champion--Winner of Volunteer State (Tennessee) Book Award

Baseball, the loss of a parent, the temptations, of adolescence.

On the Devil's Court--Winner of South Carolina YA Book of the Year Award

Joe Faust is ashamed of only two things. First, that he goes to a private school. Second, that he sold his soul to the devil.

Short Stories

Short Stories by Carl Deuker

Quick Links

Secret Garden Bookstore, Seattle.

Order from Secret Garden, an independent bookstore in my neighborhood, and you will receive an AUTOGRAPHED copy.

Click here to see a short movie (trailer) made by Jamie Stone for RUNNER. Thank you, Jamie, and good luck with your film career. Thanks, Lucy D. for showing this to me.

On-line booksellers

University of Washington Bookstore.

Teens Read Too (review of Gym Candy)