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Harry Mazer Harry Mazer

Last updated on: January 9, 2008

Harry Mazer has been writing books for teenagers for nearly thirty years on a variety of topics, including divorce, war, survival, romance, and family relationships. His Snowbound has become a classic young adult survival story. His autobiographical The Last Mission stands among the most popular stories about World War II. And the American Library Association lists The Solid Gold Kid, written with his wife Norma, as one of the 100 Best of the Best Books for Young Adults published between 1967 and 1992.

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Novels

Snowbound (1973)

The Dollar Man (1974)

The War on Villa Street (1978)

The Last Mission (1979)

The Island Keeper (1981)

I Love You, Stupid! (1981)

Hey, Kid! Does She Love Me? (1984)

When the Phone Rang (1985)

The Girl of His Dreams (1987)

City Light (1988)

Someone's Mother Is Missing (1990)

Who is Eddie Leonard? (1993)

A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor (2001)

A Boy No More (2004)

Heroes Don't Run: A Novel of the Pacific War (2005)

Novels Co-authored with Norma Fox Mazer

The Solid Gold Kid (1977)

Heartbeat (1988)

Bright Days, Stupid Nights (1992)

Books for Younger Readers

Guy Lenny (1971)

Cave Under the City (1986)

The Dog in the Freezer: Three Novellas (1997)

The Wild Kid (1998)

Edited Works

Twelve Shots: Outstanding Short Stories about Guns (1997)

Short Stories

Furlough--1944 (1984)

Falling Off the Empire State Building (1995)

The Beautiful Thing (1996)

Until the Day He Died (1997)

You Come, Too, A-Ron (1999)

Join the Army and See the World (2003)

Essays for Educators

A Huge Appetite for Books (1979)

Big Books, Sex, and the Classics in Authors' Insights: Turning Teenagers into Readers and Writers (1992)

If I Were an English teacher . . . (1993)

General Awards

Knickerbocker Award, New York State Library Association (2001)

The ALAN Award for Contributions to Young Adult Literature (2003)