Patricia Reilly Giff, Author . Random/Lamb $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-385-32655-1
Giff (Lily's Crossing; All the Way Home) again introduces a carefully delineated and sympathetic heroine in this quiet contemporary novel. Artistically talented Hollis Woods, age 12, has made a habit of running away from foster homes, but she'
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Patricia Reilly Giff. Holiday House, $15.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3656-9
Giff warmly documents the steps of her writing process, joined by her rambunctious dog, Rosie. Using excerpts from her own books, including Lily’s Crossing and Pictures of Hollis Woods, to help bolster the ideas being introduced, Giff explains how...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, illus. by Sara Hokanson. Random/Lamb, $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-385-74486-7
This slender novel about a silent child speaks loudly to the healing power of relationships, both human and canine. “Everything is right around the corner, Judith. You just have to make it happen.” These encouraging words present a particular...
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Patricia Reilly Giff. Random/Lamb, $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-385-74482-9
Giff (Winter Sky) offers an incisive look at the struggles of undocumented workers and the power of family and friends. Mateo, a 12-year-old Mexican boy, is distressed to learn that his older brother, Julian, has disappeared after a border patrol...
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Patricia Reilly Giff. Random/Lamb, $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-375-83892-7
In spare prose, Giff (Gingersnap) subtly conveys the worries of 11-year-old Siria, whose firefighter father regularly risks his life to rescue others. Unbeknownst to her father, Siria keeps watch over him, chasing fires in the middle of the night to
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Patricia Reilly Giff. Random/Lamb, $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-375-83891-0
Giff smoothly intertwines threads of loss, displacement, hope, family, and the soothing power of food (especially soup) in a quiet but emotionally charged novel set during WWII. Jayna—nicknamed Gingersnap by her mother, who died in a car accident...
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Patricia Reilly Giff. Holiday House, $16.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1949-4
To the ranks of Hilary McKay's irrepressible Cassons and Barbara Robinson's incorrigible Herdmans, Giff (the Zigzag Kids series) adds the Moran clan, who fall into both categories. At the center of the Moran family maelstrom are fifth-grade twins...
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Patricia Reilly Giff. Random/Lamb, $15.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-375-83889-7
Giff's (Storyteller) plaintive yet heartening historical novel introduces a close-knit family devastated by the Depression. After losing his job in the city, Rachel's widower father moves his children to the country, where, to Rachel's sorrow, the...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author Delacorte Press $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-50127-5
When Poopsie's new bathing suit is size Large, she knows she needs ballet lessons to make her as slim and graceful as her real name--Celeste--suggests. But her mother has to return to work to pay for the lessons, leaving Poopsie alone a few hours...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-385-32141-9
In a novel inspired by her own heritage, Giff (Lily's Crossing) meticulously recreates An Gorta M r, the Great Hunger, as she traces a 19th-century Irish girl's struggle to survive in her small village of Maidin Bay. As the story opens, 12-year-old...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author Yearling Books $3.5 (96p) ISBN 978-0-440-40547-4
When poor Matthew moves ``about a million miles'' from New York and his beloved Polk Street Gang to Ohio, he has wild and wonderful adventures he didn't bargain for. Ages 7-11. (Dec.)
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (119p) ISBN 978-0-385-29579-6
Most people read the newspaper to find out what's happening around the world. But Abby Jones hopes to find a mystery or murder to solve. When she spots the headline ""Suspected Spy Sought in Secrets Sale,'' it looks like a perfect case for her and...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-385-32209-6
Newbery Honor novelist Giff (Lily's Crossing) brings together two appealing young characters in this story of friendship, family and finding where one belongs. When fire destroys the apple crop on his family's upstate New York farm in 1941,...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author . Dell/Yearling $5.50 (176p) ISBN 978-0-440-41829-0
"Giff meticulously re-creates the Great Hunger as she traces a 19th-century Irish girl's struggle to survive," PW
wrote. Ages 8-12. (Sept.)
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author , read by Hope Davis. Listening Library $18 (, unabridged, two cassettes, 3 hours, $18 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-8072-0919-6
Adult actors/narrators frequently face the challenge of making a child protagonist seem fully realized. Davis (Next Stop Wonderland)
handles the situation with great aplomb, becoming 12-year-old Hollis Woods, an orphan in the foster care system with
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author . Dell/Yearling $5.99 (169p) ISBN 978-0-440-41182-6
When a fire destroys the apple crop on his family's upstate New York farm in 1941, a boy is sent to live temporarily in Brooklyn. There he befriends a young polio victim who wishes to accompany him home. "Giff brings together two appealing...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Random/Lamb, $15.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-375-83888-0
This novel by two-time Newbery Honor author Giff gracefully bridges two eras and two insightful perspectives. Elizabeth is a contemporary girl who goes to stay with her late mother's sister, Libby, while her father is away. There, she is captivated...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author . Random/Lamb $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-385-90095-9
Beginning where Nory Ryan's Song left off, this harrowing survival tale follows the journeys of Nory and her friend Sean. Alternate chapters tell two separate but equally grim accounts of hardships and loss, as the children travel on foot to a...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author . Random/Lamb $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-385-73066-2
After writing Nory Ryan's Song
and Maggie's Door
, two novels inspired by family history, Giff takes another trip back, this time to 1870 Germany. Here she introduces 13-year-old Dina, a spunky, courageous heroine based on the author's...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author . Holiday $16.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1813-8
The title of Giff's (Lily's Crossing
) warm memoir are the words with which Nana, her late maternal grandmother, began many of the stories she told her granddaughter. "The girls" were Nana's three daughters, including Giff's...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author . Random/Lamb $15.99 (164p) ISBN 978-0-385-73069-3
The day before he turns 11, Sam searches the attic for hidden birthday presents and discovers more than he bargained for: a newspaper clipping showing a photograph of him as a missing child. In this exquisitely rendered story of self-discovery, Giff
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author . Random/Lamb $15.99 (147p) ISBN 978-0-375-83890-3
In this tender if occasionally overdramatic novel, two-time Newbery Honor author Giff (Lily’s Crossing
; Pictures of Hollis Woods
) relates the analogous stories of a 12-year-old girl and a filly. Lidie moves from Brazil to New York to join...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author Yearling Books $4.5 (80p) ISBN 978-0-440-40085-1
Stacey Arrow makes her debut in this first book of the New Kids at the Polk Street School series, about Mrs. Zachary's kindergartners and their trials and tribulations, both as individuals and as part of a class. Stacey's first day isn't quite as...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, illus. by Alasdair Bright, Random/Lamb, $12.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-385-74687-8
This spirited if choppy novel marks the debut of Giff's Zigzag Kids series starring students in an after-school program. New to the Zelda A. Zigzag School, Mitchell wears his "I'm #1" T-shirt yet fears that others think he's a loser. He's...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, read by Arielle Sitrick and Cassandra Campbell. Listening Library, unabridged three CDs, 3 hrs., $27 ISBN 978-0-8041-2140-8
At night, Siria searches for fire and sirens in hopes of catching her firefighter father at work. But when she discovers a series of fires that look like arson, she decides to find the perpetrator in an effort to protect her father. Strick provides...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Ted Lewin, Illustrator Puffin Books $4.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-14-032225-5
The story of the Nobel Peace prizewinner, eloquently told. Ages 711. (May)
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Ted Lewin, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-81096-3
In the new addition to the outstanding Women of Our Times series, Giff tells the story of a great woman, simply but eloquently. Lewin's pictures complement the biography admirably, showing events in Albania where Agnes Bojaxhiu was born in 1910 and...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Frank Remkiewicz, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $12.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-81409-1
Saturday is Katie Cobb's favorite day. Every Saturday she gets up early and follows the same routine: play a game of checkers, then a game of jacks (Katie always wins); visit Mrs. Zelinsky for a sugar cookie; help Dexter, the handyman, paint the...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Frank Remkiewicz, Illustrator Puffin Books $3.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-050653-2
Katie Cobb luxuriates in her New York City neighborhood on weekends. PW said, ``Giff humorously explores a child's world, deftly delineating the small events that are of consequence to youngsters. Remkiewicz's colorful, cartoony pictures provide...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator Yearling Books $3.25 (71p) ISBN 978-0-440-40516-0
As she did in her Kids of the Polk Street School books, Giff introduces an endearing cast of youngsters with this propitious launch of the Lincoln Lions Band series. These two tales are set during the first few months of school, as plans take shape...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Domb, Author Delacorte Press $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-32142-6
Exceptional characterizations and a robust story line turn this WWII homefront novel into far more than a period piece. Spending the summer of '44 at her family's vacation home on the Atlantic, Lily feels angry and deserted when her widower father...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Reilly Giff, Author Yearling Books $6.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-440-41453-7
PW's starred review of this 1998 Newbery Honor book said that the WWII homefront novel, about Lily's growing friendship with a Hungarian refugee, ""has all the ingredients that best reward readers."" Ages 8-12. (Jan.)
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Lynne Cravath, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $13.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-670-88180-2
Seasoned chapter-book series author Giff gets her latest, The Adventures of Minnie and Max, off to a snappy start with this caper introducing an aspiring detective who has just finished sixth grade. Her refreshingly nontraditional heroine, Minnie,...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Lynne Cravath, Illustrator Puffin Books $4.99 (73p) ISBN 978-0-14-130821-0
PW called orphan sleuth Minnie with a feline sidekick, Max, a ""refreshingly nontraditional heroine. Even reluctant readers will keep flipping the pages."" Ages 7-10. (June)
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Lynne Cravath, Illustrator, Dana Lubotsky, Read by Live Oak Media (NY) $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87499-556-5
Lubotsky's right-on childlike voice breathes new life into Giff's (Lily's Crossing) chipper chapter-book whodunit. The debut volume of a new mystery book series introduces spunky young Minnie, an orphan living with her older brother, Orlando, in...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, illus. by Laura J. Bryant. Scholastic/Orchard, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-24465-7
Patti Cake has a big girl bedroom now, but it’s pretty intimidating (“No one slept in that big bed but me. Even Tootsie”—the dog—“slept in the hall”). So when she finds a doll in a shop that looks a little vulnerable, too (it has a smudge on one...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Leslie Morrill, Illustrator Yearling Books $3.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-440-44948-5
Casey Valentine is back, and competing with her former best friend, Tracy, for social prominence in the fifth grade. ""This pleasant book appealingly presents the ups and downs of friendship,"" said PW. Ages 9-12. (Apr.)
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Leslie Morrill, Illustrator, From The 5Th Grade C. Love, Photographer Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (117p) ISBN 978-0-385-29486-7
Casey Valentine and Tracy Matson meet again, for the first time since The Girl Who Knew It All, for a visit during summer vacation. Then Tracy temporarily moves to Casey's town and starts fifth grade. But Casey's happiness is short-lived when Tracy...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, illus. by Diane Palmisciano. Scholastic/Orchard, $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-24459-6
False assumptions underlie the comedy of this buoyant launch to Fiercely and Friends, a paper-over-board early chapter book series that’s right on target for recent picture-book graduates. Peering through a hole in the fence, Jim and Jilli see men...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Eileen McKeating, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $10.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-670-81072-7
Fans of Wilder's popular Little House books will want to turn to this biography to learn which parts of the stories actually happened. Beginning with the first book, set in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, Giff supplies the pertinent facts. Important...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Marilyn Hafner, Illustrator, Marylin Hafner, Photographer Doubleday Books for Young Readers $13.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-385-30903-5
``Next year, when I'm in second grade . . . everything will be different.'' So begins Marilyn's reassuring proclamation to herself, which hinges on a farewell to ``mean Miss Minch'' and the advent of another teacher, Miss Lark (``she'll know I'm...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Julie Durrell, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $13.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-670-86864-3
With two skinned knees, short hair ""chopped off for the summer by Albert the barber"" and a male best friend, Rosie, the heroine of Giff's inviting new Ballet Slippers series, doesn't seem a likely candidate for ballet lessons. But the plucky...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Patricia G. Reilly, Author, Marilyn Hafner, Illustrator Yearling Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-41031-7
In this series of daydreams, ""Giff gets right to the heart of grade-schoolers' priorities,"" said PW. ""Her precision, along with Hafner's buoyant, almost puckish watercolors, will strike responsive chords in children and parents alike."" Ages 5-8.
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Fionnula Flanagan, Read by Listening Library $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-1797-9
Listeners can now hear what became of Nory, star of Nory Ryan's Song, in Patricia Reilly Giff's follow-up to that book, Maggie's Door, skillfully performed by Irish actress Fionnula Flanagan. In moving passages that also document elements of...
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Patricia Reilly Giff, Author, Susanna Natti, Illustrator Puffin Books $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-050668-6
Ronald's birthday is one day too late to be celebrated with his class, but his end-of-the-year surprise will warm all readers. Ages 3-8. (June)
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Patricia Reilly Giff. Holiday House, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3954-6
In 1941, two sparring Connecticut schoolmates travel to Attu, a remote island off the coast of Alaska. Sensitive Izzy, 11, is thrilled to visit the island that her late father loved, and the trip with her ornithologist mother is a welcome break from
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Patricia Reilly Giff. Holiday House, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3955-3
Giff loosely based the tenacious heroine of this profoundly moving novel on her great-grandmother, who was raised in the town in Ireland where the Drumlish Land War of 1881 took place. In taut free verse, the author writes in the voice of fiercely...
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Patricia Reilly Giff. Holiday House, $16.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3800-6
In this standalone companion to Giff’s Newbery Honor–winning Lily’s Crossing, Genevieve, a 13-year-old American, is spending the summer in Alsace with her aloof grandmother, Mémé, when the WWII German occupation begins. Unwilling to flee and leave...
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