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Gracie's Girl
Contributor(s): Wittlinger, Ellen (Author)
ISBN: 0689849605     ISBN-13: 9780689849602
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
OUR PRICE:   $6.29  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2002
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Annotation: As she starts middle school, Bess volunteers to work on the school musical in hopes of fitting in. But when she volunteers with her mother at a homeless shelter and gets to know an elderly homeless woman named Gracie, Bess changes her mind about what is really important.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming Of Age
- Juvenile Fiction | School & Education
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Homelessness & Poverty
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 99047318
Lexile Measure: 740
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.58" W x 7.3" (0.29 lbs) 186 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 44709
Reading Level: 4.9   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 7.0
 
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Publisher Description:
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT -- OR WHO -- WILL TOUCH YOUR HEART.
Now that Bess Cunningham is in middle school, she's determined to get noticed. With her new glasses, her wild thrift-store clothes, and her job as stage manager for the school play, she's sure her days of being invisible are over.
Being forced to volunteer with her parents at the local soup kitchen doesn't exactly fit into Bess's popularity plans, especially since she finds the place so creepy. But when she meets Gracie Jarvis Battle, an elderly homeless woman, Bess can't help but feel compassion for her. Bess grows more involved with trying to feed and shelter the older woman, but as the weather turns colder and Gracie grows thinner, Bess begins to wonder -- will her help be enough?

Contributor Bio(s): Wittlinger, Ellen: - Ellen Wittlinger is the critically acclaimed author of the teen novels Parrotfish, Blind Faith, Sandpiper, Heart on My Sleeve, Zigzag, and Hard Love (an American Library Association Michael L. Printz Honor Book and a Lambda Literary Award winner), and its sequel Love & Lies: Marisol's Story. She has a bachelor's degree from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, and an MFA from the University of Iowa. A former children's librarian, she lives with her husband in Haydenville, Massachusetts.