Arthur Joseph Roth (Nina Hoy, Barney Mara, Slater McGurk, Pete Pomeroy) Has worked as a bartender, carpenter, coalminer, factory worker, logger, farmer, high school teacher of Spanish, college instructor in writing, clerk-typist, and truck driver. Two for Survival was selected as one of the children's books of the year, 1976, by the Children's Book Committee of the Child Study Association. Under pseudonym Pete Pomeroy: Wipeout! (1968) The Mallory Burn (1971) Crash at Salty Bay (1972) Under pseudonym Barney Mara: Forest Fire Under pseudonym Nina Hoy: The Runaway (1979) Under pseudonym Slater McGurk: The Grand Central Murders (1964) The Denmark Bus (1966) The Big Dig (1968)