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Jerry Spinelli
Before ELEANOR AND PARK, there was STARGIRL. The seminal life-affirming YA novel celebrating first love and self-acceptance - now in a beautiful new edition for the next generation of readers.
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Zinkoff is unlike other kids in school and so doesn’t worry about coming in last place or always having the wrong answers, despite the teasing and comments he gets from…
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Alice B McGinty
Children love Spinelli’s books because he knows what it is to be a kid. His more than 22 books, including Maniac Magee and Wringer which were Newbery winners, come alive…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Jerry Spinelli’s Stargirl, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
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This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf –Title page verso.
Worm Tarnauer’s school thinks assigning each eighth grader the name of a teenager who died in the past year will make them contemplate their own mortality. Yeah, sure. But Worm…
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Korean edition of Maniac Magee winner of the Newbery Medal and Boston Glove-Horn Book Award. Translated by Kim Yul Hi. In Korean. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by…
Hating to leave her familiar surroundings, Tooter resorts to sabotage when her family moves from their suburban home to Aunt Sally’s farm.
From first memories through high school, Newbery medalist Spinelli pens his early autobiography with all the warmth, humor, and drama of his bestselling fiction. Photos.
A brilliant new novel from the Newbery Medal winner and author of the New York Times bestseller Stargirl.
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Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each other deal with what is missing in their…
Can playing dead bring you back to life? Maybe only on Dead Wednesday… On this day the worlds of a shy boy and a gone girl collide, and the connection…
Ever since they were Snotsippers, Jack and the girl have fought, until one day she steals his bike and as he and the Amigos try to recover it, Jack realizes…
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 –Colophon.
This Italian-American Newbery Medalist presents a humorous account of his childhood and youth in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Cammie mother died saving her from harm when she was just a baby. Now, on the eve of her 13th birthday, the thing Cammie most wants is a mom. A…
Spinelli gives readers the world through the eyes of cocky seventh-grade super-jock Crash Coogan. He got his name the Christmas Day he received his first football helmet and used it…
Maisie goes out for wrestling to get close to Eric, the boy of her dreams, but she soon finds out that she loves wrestling. Most of the boys hate having…
For use in schools and libraries only. Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli takes us to one of the most devastating settings imaginable, Nazi-occupied Warsaw of World War II, and tells a…
Read the New York Times bestselling modern-day classic and the companion novel, now available in agift-ready boxed set! A beloved celebration of individuality from Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli. And don’t…
Seventh-grader Jason narrates the events of his year, from school, hair, and pimples, to mothers, little brothers, and a girl.
Beloved Newbery Medalist Spinelli ( Maniac Magee ) addresses issues of identity, belonging, family, and bullying in this humorous and heartfelt novel about twins.
A novel of a young boy who is like all kids, yet unlike all kids.
Palmer LaRue is running out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, he’s dreaded the day he turns ten, the day he’s supposed to become a wringer.
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee’s life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries, in Spinelli’s Newbery Medal-winning novel.
This Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year tells a story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named…
Picking up a year after Stargirl ends, this New York Times -bestselling sequel takes the form of the world’s longest letter, in diary form, in which Stargirl reflects on time…
Set in Nazi-occupied Poland just before the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Spinelli’s first historical novel tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival though the eyes of a young orphan.
Includes an excerpt form Love, Stargirl.
A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors…
Fourth graders are tough. Suds knows that now he’s in fourth grade, he’s supposed to be a rat. But whenever he tries to act like one, something goes wrong. Can…
The remarkable Newbery Honor Book is now in this stunning young adult edition. This haunting tale of a boy’s moral triumph by the Newbery Medalist is now repackaged with striking…
A boy’s tenth birthday marks an event he would rather ignore: the day that he is ready to take his place as a wringer at the annual family fest, Pigeon…
The author of the Newbery Medal-winning Maniac Magee introduces Will Tuppence, a young man whose world is suddenly tipped on its side. Will soon begins to see that the beauty…
Seventh-grader John Crash Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather’s stroke make him consider the meaning…
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee’s life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
Jamie Mongoose Hills finds the little blue card among the candy he’s shoplifted. Brenda is saved by the card during the Great TV Turn-Off. And April Mendez takes a ride…
Can playing dead bring you back to life? Maybe on Dead Wednesday... On this day the worlds of a shy boy and a gone girl collide, and the connection they…
Newbery Medalist Spinelli makes a warm, funny return to elementary school in the long-awaited prequel to his bestseller, Fourth Grade Rats.
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. Young Adult.
Jessica Narloch
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1.3, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: The main aim of children’s literature is to be…
Stan Huskey
Elmwood Park Zoo was established in 1924 when roughly 16 acres of land and a small group of animals were donated to the borough of Norristown. Although the early years…
