Patricia Reilly Giff
2) Big whopper
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Destiny Washington cannot think of a discovery during Discovery Week at school, she makes up a story, but finds that she cannot keep on pretending it is true.
5) Star time
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Gina wants more than anything to be the star of the show that her class will perform, but everything seems to go wrong until she makes a generous choice.
Author
Series
New kids at the Polk Street School volume 1
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Appears on list
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 3
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Richard looks forward to the Candy Corn contest in Ms. Rooney's class, but he can't resist sneaking just a few pieces.
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 11
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Summer for Richard Best, nicknamed Beast, means facing the two ordeals of summer school and losing his best friend, who is moving to a distant state.
10) Flying feet
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Charlie often thinks of inventions that seldom work, but his latest idea just might be able to help Jake the Sweeper get rid of a big pile of trash and save "Come as a Character" day, too.
12) Lily's crossing
Author
Pub. Date
1999, 1997.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
13) Bears beware
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Mitchell is afraid when the children from the Zigzag Center go camping overnight, but he tries to be brave and discovers that nature is not so scary after all.
14) Pickle puss
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 12
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Emily Arrow determines to get the most fish in the library's Fish for a Good Book contest, but she doesn't take into account the equal determination of Dawn Bosco.
15) Say "cheese"
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 10
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
At the close of the school year, Emily thinks about the fun she has had with her classmates.
16) Nory Ryan's song
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
17) Sky high
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Charlie has lots of ideas. Need something to go sky high? Ah-ha! The zinger-winger! Need to launch a cheese popper into soup? The amazing popper-upper! But the zinger-winger zings more than wings and the popper-upper plops. Charlie isn't allowed to invent for a week. Meanwhile, the afterschool invention fair is coming up. He needs time to make something special. Good thing he has his friends and Mr. Redfern, another inventor, to help him out"--
19) All the way home
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In 1941, circumstances bring together Brick, a boy from New York's apple country, and Mariel, a young girl made shy by her bout with polio, and the two make a journey from Brooklyn back to help Brick's elderly neighbors save their apple crop and to help Mariel learn about her past.
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