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Gertie's Leap to Greatness
Contributor(s): Beasley, Kate (Author), Tamaki, Jillian (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 0374302618 ISBN-13: 9780374302610
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)

OUR PRICE: $14.44

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2016
* Out of Print *

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes)
- Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2015030871

Age Level: 8-12

Grade Level: 3-7

Lexile Measure: 720(Not Available)

Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.6" W x 8.2" L (0.75 lbs) 256 pages

Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product

Review Citations: School Library Journal 05/01/2016 pg. 90
Booklist 07/01/2016 pg. 62
Publishers Weekly 08/01/2016
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2016
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2016 pg. 102
Shelf Awareness 10/04/2016
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2016
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2017 - Superior,Well Above Average

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 184757
Reading Level: 4.7 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 6.0

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Publisher Description:

Meet the new Ramona Quimby! -- Entertainment Weekly

Gertie Reece Foy is 100% Not-From-Concentrate awesome. She has a daddy who works on an oil rig, a great-aunt who always finds the lowest prices at the Piggly Wiggly, and two loyal best friends. So when her absent mother decides to move away from their small town, Gertie sets out on her greatest mission yet: becoming the best fifth grader in the universe to show her mother exactly what she'll be leaving behind. There's just one problem: Seat-stealing new girl Mary Sue Spivey wants to be the best fifth grader, too. And there is simply not enough room at the top for the two of them.

From debut author Kate Beasley, and with illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Jillian Tamaki, comes a classic tale of hope and homecoming that will empty your heart, then fill it back up again--one laugh at a time.

Contributor Bio(s): Tamaki, Jillian: - Jillian Tamaki is an illustrator and comics artist. She is the co-creator of Skim and This One Summer, and the author of SuperMutant Magic Academy and Boundless (2017). She has taught comics and illustration in New York City at SVA and The New School. She lives in Toronto. jilliantamaki.comBeasley, Kate: - Kate Beasley holds a Masters in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives with her family in Claxton, Georgia, with two dogs, one parrot, lots of cows, and a cat named Edgar. Gertie's Leap to Greatness is her first novel.Tamaki, Jillian: - Jillian Tamaki is an illustrator and comics artist. She is the co-creator of Skim and This One Summer, and the author of SuperMutant Magic Academy and Boundless (2017). She has taught comics and illustration in New York City at SVA and The New School. She lives in Toronto.

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