Author : Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 2009-07-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781442049369
Tired of feeling meerly average and annoyed about constant comparisons with her older sister, Casey Valentine draws up plans for making herself over and transforming herself into a celebrity. Reissue.
Author : Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 1989-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0440426766
Tired of being compared with her popular older sister, Casey decides she will make herself over.
Author : Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307542289
This Newbery Honor book about a girl who has never known family fighting for her first true home “will leave readers . . . satisfied” (Kirkus Reviews). Hollis Woods is the place where a baby was abandoned is the baby’s name is an artist is now a twelve-year-old girl who’s been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember them all. When Hollis is sent to Josie, an elderly artist who is quirky and affectionate, she wants to stay. But Josie is growing more forgetful every day. If Social Services finds out, they’ll take Hollis away and move Josie into a home. Well, Hollis Woods won’t let anyone separate them. She’s escaped the system before; this time, she’s taking Josie with her. Still, even as she plans her future with Josie, Hollis dreams of the past summer with the Regans, fixing each special moment of her days with them in pictures she’ll never forget. Patricia Reilly Giff captures the yearning for a place to belong in this warmhearted story, which stresses the importance of artistic vision, creativity, and above all, family.
Author : Steven R. Schirripa
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307488780
It’s July, and Nicholas Borelli II’s parents are scheduled to spend two weeks on a cruise. Nicholas will spend those two weeks, as he does every summer, at Camp Wannameka. The night before he’s to leave, however, there’s a phone call: thanks to an explosion in the septic system, camp is canceled. The only place for Nicholas to go instead is to his grandmother’s house in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York. Nicholas’s father grew up in Brooklyn, but you’d hardly know it. An Italian dinner at Nicholas’s house in the suburbs is whole wheat pasta, organic tomato sauce, and, if he’s lucky, a tofu meatball. And Brooklyn? Well, Brooklyn is the place his father left and never talks about. Nicholas has never been there, and he doesn’t want to go now. But when Nicholas tastes his grandma Tutti’s meatballs for the first time, gets a nickname from his uncle Frankie, and makes a friend in the neighborhood, his feelings about Brooklyn–and family–begin to change.
Author : Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 2001-11-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0385729936
This “brilliantly told” (New York Times) Newbery Honor Book gives readers a sense of what it was like to be on the American home front while our soldiers were away fighting in World War II. As in past years, Lily will spend the summer in Rockaway, in her family’s summer house by the Atlantic Ocean. But this summer of 1944, World War II has changed everyone’s life. Lily’s best friend, Margaret, has moved to a wartime factory town, and, much worse, Lily’s father is going overseas to the war. There’s no one Lily’s age in Rockaway until the arrival of Albert, a refugee from Hungary with a secret sewn into his coat. Albert has lost most of his family in the war; he’s been through things Lily can’t imagine. But soon they form a special friendship. Now Lily and Albert have secrets to share: They both have told lies, and Lily has told one that may cost Albert his life.
Author : Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375890556
SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk. Endless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. Since she was tiny, she’s worked in her family’s dressmaking business, where the sewing machine is a cranky member of the family. When 13-year-old Dina leaves her small town in Germany to join her uncle’s family in Brooklyn, she turns her back on sewing. Never again! But looking for a job leads her right back to the sewing machine. Why did she ever leave home? Here she is, still with a needle and thread—and homesick to boot. She didn’t know she could be this homesick, but she didn’t know she could be so brave either, as she is standing up to an epidemic or a fire. She didn’t know she could grow so close to her new family or to Johann, the young man from the tailor’s shop. And she didn’t know that sewing would reveal her own wonderful talent—and her future. In Dina, the beloved writer Patricia Reilly Giff has created one of her most engaging and vital heroines. Readers will enjoy seeing 1870s Brooklyn through Dina’s eyes, and share her excitement as she discovers a new world.
Author : Steven R. Schirripa
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307488772
If you ask Nicholas Borelli II--better known as Nicky Deuce--winter in New Jersey is awfully boring compared to summertime in Brooklyn, where he had the best two weeks of his life. Now it's cold out, he's back in school, and he has to live without Grandma Tutti's home cooked Italian meals and Uncle Franklie's funny tough-guy attitude. But not for long! Nicky's father is throwing a New Year's Eve party and the whole family is going to stay at their house and the gang from Brooklyn is coming to visit. By Christmas, Nicky's home is brimming with Brooklyn accents. Grandma Tutti wastes no time taking over the kitchen while Uncle Frankie charms the neighbors and cousin Tommy beats up Dirk Van Allen, the biggest jer in the neighborhood. Suddenly Tommy becomes a local hero but he and Nicky also become the prime target of a bully's revenge. Nicky Deuce is about to find out that winter in New Jersey is anything but boring.
Author : Carol Weston
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2001-06-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0440416671
Dear Diary, You will never in a million years guess where I’m going....Italy! In Europe!! Across the ocean!!! I even have a passport. It’s really cool, except I’m squinting my eyes in the photo, so I look like a dork. At least that’s what my brother said. I call him Matt the Brat. You would too. Trust me.... When Melanie Martin heads to Italy on a family vacation with her art-obsessed mom, her grumpy dad, and her little brother, she has no idea what she’s in for. As she discovers Michelangelo, Italian ice cream, and poetry, she also realizes how much her family means to her. Maybe she won’t trade them in after all.
Author : Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Ballet
ISBN : 9780670874699
Rosie plans to surprise her grandfather on his birthday by getting her dance class to perform "Cinderella, " his favorite ballet.
Author : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442441003
An American classic—and Pulitzer Prize–winning story—that shows the ultimate bond between child and pet. No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend. There has been a film and even a musical based on this moving story, a fine work of great American literature.
