A Girl Called Al
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| Author | M.E. Kerr |
| ISBN | 0061139890 |
M. E. Kerr's first novel - hailed by the New York Times as a "timely, compelling" and "brilliantly funny" look at adolescence and friendship
It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf's dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job....
Things are back to normal for Annabel Andrews since that freaky Friday when she switched bodies with her mother. She is still in love with Boris, her cute friend from upstairs, and she is still annoyed by her pesky little brother, Ape Face. But normal doesn't last long in the Andrews household!
When...
| Author | Jean Little |
| ISBN | 0060239247 |
From "Essential Reading: From a Child's Point of View" by Literary Mama staff:
To round out our list, "Birthing the Mother Writer" columnist Cassie Premo Steele gives us a selection that both a literary mama and her literary child can enjoy: "One of my favorite books as a kid was Jean Little's...
| Author | Gail Rock |
| ISBN | 0394928334 |
The genesis of this slender but excellent novel is somewhat unusual, and more complex in the relationship of novelization to movie than most. In the summer of 1972, Gail Rock (b. 1940), who was then working with the CBS TV network, was chatting with some Jewish co-workers about the December holidays....
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0440400066 |
This was a wonderful read, it could have been longer but we loved it. I would have loved to read this as a Child, the motherless girl with a love for horses, longing for friendship would have really appealed to me. Pamela lives with her Aunts, her mother died and her father works away. When she is given a necklace...
| Author | Patricia Coombs |
| ISBN | 0440422108 |
What a beautiful book! Reading this book brought back wonderful memories of reading this as a child. I love the illustrations, absolutely beautiful, I really like the black, white and blue used in this one and all the details in the pictures. I'm very impressed this author/illustrator was equally as...
| Author | Betsy Byars |
| ISBN | 0140324798 |
"Bingo Brown fell in love three times during English Class." When I read this first sentence, I knew I was in for a treat. Of course, I was the same age as Bingo at the time, sixth grade, and over the course of the next several weeks, I fell in love with Bingo, myself. I devoured everything Byars wrote about...
| Author | Virginia Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1416914137 |
"We'll spend the whole summer on the farm with Uncle Ross. I ought to make up something special just because we've never ever gone alone like this!" And the first thing Elizabeth does is give herself and her younger brother, John, new names -- Geeder and Toeboy.
The farm is special too, with its...
| Author | Peg Kehret |
| ISBN | 0671734334 |
She was drowning - when scenes of her childhood flashed through her mind. Then, images of a girl named Kalos in a distant time and place. Somehow, Willow Paige knew that she was Kalos, saved from drowning by her sister Tiy - as Willow herself was saved by a girl with a long, blond braid. Kalos returned, in...
| Author | Marlene Fanta Shyer |
| ISBN | 0689712138 |
Neil Oxley's older sister, Geraldine, is coming home for the first time. After spending most of her life in institutions for the retarded, she is finally going to live with her family and adapt to the "real world".
"Skillful juxtaposition of two seemingly incompatible elements--light humor...
| Author | Carolyn Haywood |
| ISBN | 0152051015 |
Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole new generation.
Third grade begins with...
| Author | Elizabeth Levy |
| ISBN | 0440479746 |
Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a kingdom far, far away, when i was but a young girl...
My mother was working for her Educational Psycology PhD advisor (for the dissertation that was forever in progress but never materialized because of the independent child she was raising all by herself~among...
| Author | Ellen Conford |
| ISBN | 0316153540 |
I read this book in middle school, and I found it again at St. Vincent De Paul. Loved it! Laura feels that she's ordinary. She gets straight As in school, but feels that isn't enough. Her sister, Jill, bowls and has been in every high school play. Brother Douglas is on the debate team and plays piano. Dennis,...
| Author | Robert Kimmel Smith |
| ISBN | 0440442079 |
It's tough for eleven-year-old Ned to stop eating. At four-feet-eight inches tall he weighs one hundred and nine pounds, and he keeps growing--wider. When his pareents send him to a summer diet camp, he and his bunkmates can't quite give up their old habits. The joys of candy and doughnuts are so appealing...
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0440400090 |
Twelve-year-old Anastasia Krupnik is convinced that her family's move to the suburbs will be the beginning of the end. How can she possibly accept split-level houses with matching furniture, or mothers whose biggest worry is ring around collar? But her new home brings many surprises, not to mention...
| Author | E.L. Konigsburg |
| ISBN | 1416949577 |
Who is George?
Only Howard Carr and his older brother, Ben, can answer that question, because only they know about George. George is the funny little man who lives inside Ben, helping him (mostly) navigate life as a sixth grader who happens to be a scientific genius and who happens to be studying organic...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590023853 |
While I liked this one slightly less than the first Amalia book, it was still good. It was interesting to read about Maggie's eating disorder from the prospective of someone who cared about her. It's so hard when you have a friend going through something like that, whether it's a mental illness, an eating...
