Richard Peck Books
Following is a bibliography of many of Richard Peck's wonderful books. The annotations represent a variety of his great lines that capture readers of all kinds.
- Anonymously Yours
J 818.54 P3675.an - "When another publisher commissioned somebody to write my biography, a friend was thunderstruck, 'Not a whole book,' he said in wonderment. That friend is in for a fresh shock now if this autobiography falls into his hands."
- Are You in the House Alone?
J Fiction PEC - "When I try to remember, now that I know who it was, I wonder if there was any sound. I may have heard breathing, or it may have been my own. Every time I said hello, my voice sounded more and more hollow."
- Bel-Air Bambi and the Mall Rats
J Fiction PEC - "Picture the scene. Hands — claws, maybe — draw the curtain back. A figure forms in the ghastly ruins of the room."
- Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death
J Fiction PEC - "While me and Alexander still lived beneath a ka's curse and the diggers drew nearer a pilfered tomb over Egypt, a storm cloud began to form over Bluff City High School."
- Close Enough to Touch
J Fiction PEC - "Dory and I took a blanket and went down to the pier just after dark. It was Fourth of July night last summer."
- Don't Look and It Won't Hurt
J Fiction PEC - "Out at the city limits, there's this sign that says: WELCOME TO CLAYPITTS, PEARL OF THE PRAIRIE, and if you'd believe that, you'd believe anything."
- The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp
J Fiction PEC - "Unless you never got out of grade school, you'll have noticed how life keeps making you start over."
- Fair Weather
J Fiction PEC - "It was the last day of our old lives, and we didn't even know it."
- Father Figure: A Novel
J Fiction PEC - "When my mom died, I spent a lot of time — maybe too much — trying to visualize how it happened. My kid brother, Byron, was going over it in his mind too, in his own way."
- The Ghost Belonged to Me
J Fiction PEC, Cassette Fiction PEC, Large Type Fiction PEC - "At one time there was a ghost out in the brick barn on the back of our place."
- Ghosts I Have Been: A Novel
J Fiction PEC - "I tell you, the world is so full of ghosts, a person wonders if there's a soul to be found on the Other Side. Or anybody snug in a quiet grave. I've seen several haunts, and been one myself."
- The Great Interactive Dream Machine: Another Adventure in
Cyberspace
J Fiction PEC - "Not that I was alone. I was hurting too bad to think, but somebody was in the Black Hole with me. At first I thought I knew him."
- The Last Safe Place on Earth
J Fiction PEC - "He was going to tear up the Bible — rip it apart. Mother rushed at him to get the Bible back. That's all she meant. And he hit her."
- A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel in Stories
J Fiction PEC, Cassette Fiction PEC, Braille Fiction PEC - "You wouldn't think we'd have to leave Chicago to see a dead body. We were growing up there back in the bad old days of Al Capone and Bugs Moran."
- Lost In Cyberspace
J Fiction PEC - "When I came to, I felt a wet nose in my ear. At first I had thought it was my own nose. I thought maybe my face had been that rearranged. But out of the swelling eye on that side, I saw it was a French poodle in a plaid jacket."
- Mindscapes: Poems for the Real World
J 821.9108 P - "Poetry explores the landscape of the mind, and it expands the mind, moving both writer and reader out into wider fields, all ripe for further discovery."
- Princess Ashley
J Fiction PEC - "It was the best night of my life. I kept thinking that."
- Remembering the Good Times
J Fiction PEC - "Trav and I almost argued once about which one of us got to Kate first. I did. I remember the day, almost the minute we met."
- Representing Super Doll
J Fiction PEC - "Mama came in off the back porch, and her hands were wringing wet with blood."
- Secrets of the Shopping Mall
J Fiction PEC - "'Chees', said a far-off voice behind the air vents. ' What hit me, a truck?' 'Barnie!' Teresa shrieked again, fitting her mouth up to the little slits where her forehead had just connected. 'You in there?'"
- Strays Like Us
J Fiction PEC - "I came home one afternoon, and Aunt Fay was at the kitchen table. She never just sat, so she was waiting for me, and the letter was in her hand."
- Those Summer Girls I Never Met
J Fiction PEC - "Ice bobs in the water, and wet beads run down my glass. I'm at the end of the dining-room table, and Mom's at the other. Call this the Last Supper."
- Unfinished Portrait of Jessica
J Fiction PEC - "Not even fourteen yet. I was still days away from fourteen, and they were plodding, icebound days."
- Voices After Midnight: A Novel
J Fiction PEC - "In my usual dream, I'm riding a Honda Gyro. I've got on big boots, and I'm riding thundering through the nights down interstate highways with the wind whistling in my crash helmet."
- A Year Down Yonder
J Fiction PEC, Cassette Fiction PEC, Large Type Fiction PEC - "Oh, didn't I feel sorry for myself when the Wabash Railroad's Blue Bird train steamed into grandma's town."