The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z - Kate Messner 电子书Mobi+epub
Product details
Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Lexile Measure: 710 (What's this?)
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens (September 14, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802721737
ISBN-13: 978-0802721730
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Product details
Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Lexile Measure: 710 (What's this?)
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens (September 14, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802721737
ISBN-13: 978-0802721730
Gianna Z. has less than one week to collect twenty-five leaves for a science project, or else she might lose her spot at cross-country sectionals. Finishing her project will be enough of a hurdle, but with a grandmother who keeps losing her teeth, a father who drives her to school in the family hearse, and an arch-nemesis intent on stealing her spot on the team, Gianna will need a stroke of brilliance to make everything fall into place.
Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
Grade 5–8—Seventh-grader Gianna Zales loves art and cross-country running. She is not so crazy about research projects or anything involving time-management skills, and has somehow gotten to within a week of the due date of a huge science assignment with no work to show. But how hard can it be to find and catalog 25 different varieties of leaves—especially in Vermont, where Robert Frost was inspired to write "Birches" and countless other poems about nature. However, family obligations keep interfering. Her father runs the town's funeral home, but even a close proximity to death can't prepare her for her own grandmother's decline. Suddenly, Nonna is forgetting everything. Also, Coach Napper has told Gianna that she must bring her science grade up to participate in sectionals, and beautiful, arrogant Bianca would love to take her place as the team's star runner. Gianna's mother means well, but is struggling with Nonna's failing health. Youngsters will find much to relate to in this likable protagonist's struggle to balance family and academic commitments. While it is no surprise when it all comes together in the end, plot twists keep readers engaged, and Messner's warm and humorous tone will capture even reluctant readers.—Kim Dare, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA
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Review
"Laced with humor and heart . . . an insightful and affecting read." - Booklist
"An engaging saga." - Kirkus Reviews
"Plot twists keep readers engaged, and Messner's warm and humorous tone will capture even reluctant readers." - School Library Journal
"Kate [Messner] juggles a bundle of fairly heavy plotlines as if they weighed no more than a pile of leaves, managing her story with humor and grace." - Writing and Ruminating (Online)
"An empathetic, beautiful, magical, fiercely necessary book that stares unflinchingly at the very real challenges contemporary kids face and gently assures them they are not alone. Kate Messner gives her readers a story to cherish." - Anne Ursu, author of BREADCRUMBS on THE SEVENTH WISH
"Hopeful, empathetic, and unusually enlightening." - starred review, Kirkus Reviews on THE SEVENTH WISH
"It's no surprise that Kate Messner’s magic pen could write a charming, moving, funny, and ultimately very surprising story about a magic pencil!" - Wendy Mass, New York Times bestselling author of 11 BIRTHDAYS on ALL THE ANSWERS
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About the Author
Kate Messner is the author of The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z and the upcoming Sugar and Ice. She teaches junior high in New York, where she lives with her husband and two children.
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