Double Focalized Novels


  • Adam Rapp's 33 Snowfish
  • Aidan Chambers's Postcards from No-Man's Land
  • Andre Norton's Breed to Come
  • Annette Curtis Klause's The Silver Kiss
  • Barbara Hall's The House Across the Cove
  • Berlie Doherty's Dear Nobody (Carnegie?)
  • Bruce Coville's "I Was a Sixth Grade Alien" series
  • Caroline Macdonald's Lake at the End of the World
  • Charles Butler's The Fetch of Mardy Watt (HarperCollins, Jan 2004)
  • Diana Wynne Jones's Deep Secret
  • Diana Wynne Jones's Merlin Conspiracy
  • Donna Jo Napoli's Zel
  • Erika Tamar's Fair Game
  • George Ella Lyon's<bold> </bold>Gina. Jamie. Father.Bear. New York: Atheneum/Richard Jackson, 2002
  • Gillian Cross's On the Edge
  • Jacqueline Wilson's Secrets
  • Jacqueline Woodson's If You Come Softly
  • Jan Mark's The Hillingdon Fox
  • Jane Kurtz's The Storyteller's Beads
  • Jane Yolen and Bruce Colville's Armageddon Summer
  • Jean Ure's Come Lucky April
  • Jenny Pausaker's What are Ya?
  • Joe Bruchac's Sacajawea
  • John Marsden's Letters from the Inside
  • Jonathan Pearce's Buds, A Story about Friendship (ISBN 1594-1100-69 softcover 8/03)
  • Jonathan Pearce's The Far Side of the Moon Softcover 12/01)(2d ed ISBN 1594-1101-15
  • Joseph Bruchac's  The Arrow Over the Door
  • Joyce Carol Oates's Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
  • Joyce McDonald's Swallowing Stones
  • Julie Ann Peters's Define Normal
  • Julie Baker's Up Molasses Mountain.  NY:  Wendy Lamb Books,2002.
  • Julius Lester's Pharaoh's Daughter
  • Julius Lester's When Dad Killed Mom
  • Kathryn Lasky's Night Journey (1981)
  • Kevin Henkes's Words of Stone
  • Lian Hearn's Across The Nightingale Floor
  • Linda Sue Park's When My Name Was Keoko
  • Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses
  • Melvin Burgess Bloodtide
  • Michael Dorris's Morning Girl
  • Patricia Reilly Giff's All the Way Home
  • Patricia Wrede and  Caroline Stevermer's Sorcery & Cecelia
  • Paul Fleischman's Townsend's Warbler (non-fiction)
  • Paul Zindel's The Pigman
  • Paula Danziger and Ann M. Martin's P.S. Longer Letter Later and Snail Mail no More
  • Penelope Farmer's Thicker than Water
  • Peter Dickinson's Bone from a Dry Sea
  • Peter Hunt's Going Up
  • Peter Sis's Tibet Through the Red Box
  • Robert Corbet's Fifteen Love.  Walker 2003
  • Robert Cormier's Tenderness
  • Robert Swindells' Abomination
  • Robert Swindells' Daz 4 Zoe
  • Robert Swindells' Stone Cold
  • Sharon Creech's The Wanderer
  • WD Myers 145th Street Stories
  • Wendelin Van Draanen's Flipped  (2001)
  • William Mayne's Winter Quarters

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  • Alice Childress' A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
  • Amy Goldman Koss's The Girls and The Cheat
  • Ann Brashares's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Second Summerof the Sisterhood
  • Avi's Nothing But the Truth
  • Cormier's Chocolate War
  • Davida Hurwin's A Time for Dancing
  • E.L. Konigsburg's The View from Saturday
  • Frank's Life is Funny
  • Jeanne Marie Grunwell's Mind Games
  • Karen Hesse’s Witness
  • Melvin Burgess's Junk
  • Nikki Grimes's Bronx Masquerade
  • Paul Fleischman's Bull Run
  • Paul Fleischman's Seedfolk
  • Paul Fleischman's Whirligig
  • Rob Thomas's Slave Day
  • Virginia Euwer Wolff's Bat 6
  • Virginia Walter's Making Up Megaboy

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    Multiple focalizers appearing in different novels about the same events:
     

  • Juliet McKenna's "Tales of Einarrin" (5 books): Thief's Gamble, Gambler's Fortune, Swordsman's Oath, Warrior's Bond, The Assassin's Edge
  • Mary Stolz's A Dog on Barkham Street and The Bully of Barkham Street
  • Ruth Elwin Harris's Quantocks quartet (The silentshore, The beckoning hills, The dividing sea, Beyond the Orchid House)
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