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Pennsylvania State University. University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
( When Debbie gives Tina a cardboard piano, she is sure t...)
When Debbie gives Tina a cardboard piano, she is sure that Tina will love it. After all, Debbie spent a long time making it, and it looks just like a real piano. Now Tina can learn to play, too. It will be so amazing. But just because you are friends with somebody, and just because you are the same in most ways, doesn't mean that you will always see eye to eye. Friendship can be tricky. Really, really tricky. Even for true best friends. Even for Debbie and Tina.
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("Before last summer Maureen and I were best friends....At...)
"Before last summer Maureen and I were best friends....At least I think we were. I don't know what happened exactly. As some people who get hit by trucks sometimes say,'I didn't see anything coming.'" When her best friend since the third grade starts acting as though Debbie doesn't exist, Debbie finds out the hard way that life can be a lonesome place. But in the end the heroine of this wryly funny coming-of-age story--a girl who lives in a house covered with stuff that is supposed to look like bricks but is just a fake brick pattern--discovers that even the hourly tragedies of junior high school can have silver linings, just as a house covered with Insul-Brick can protect a real home. This first novel shines--fun, engrossing, bittersweet, and wonderfully unpredictable.
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(Debbie is wishing something would happen. Something good....)
Debbie is wishing something would happen. Something good. To her. Soon. In the meantime, Debbie loses a necklace and finds a necklace (and boy does the necklace have a story to tell), she goes jeans shopping with her mother (an accomplishment in diplomacy), she learns to drive shift in a truck (illegally), she saves a life (directly connected to being able to drive, thus proving something), she takes a bus ride to another town (in order to understand what it feels like to be from "elsewhere"), she meets a boy (who truly is from "elsewhere"), but mostly she hangs out with her friends: Patty, Hector, Lenny, and Phil.
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(Ry is on his way to camp. Too bad he didn't open his mail...)
Ry is on his way to camp. Too bad he didn't open his mail "before" he left home because the Summer ArchaeoTrails Program has been canceled. By the time Ry gets this news he's miles from home, miles from civilization, his cell phone doesn't work, and he's lost a shoe.
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(Lynne Rae Perkins's first book, Home Lovely, was hailed b...)
Lynne Rae Perkins's first book, Home Lovely, was hailed by Kirkus as a book to read, share, and treasure. Now the gifted author-artist tells the story of Janet, who lives in a house on top of a big hill. Her parents think it's like living in the clouds. But Janet thinks living in a more sensible house like Aunt Peppy and Uncle Tim's might be better--a house where beds are always made and dishes always washed. Janet spends the weekend with Aunt Peppy and Uncle Tim, but one morning she sees something magical and needs to share it with the people who understand magic best--her parents. Her story will have young readers on the lookout for the extraordinary in their everyday world, too.
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Use Novel-Ties ® study guides as your total guided reading program. Reproducible pages in chapter-by-chapter format provide you with the right questions to ask, the important issues to discuss, and the organizational aids that help students get the most out of each book they read.
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( She wished something would happen. Something good. To ...)
She wished something would happen. Something good. To her. Checking her wish for loopholes, she found one. Hoping it wasn't too late, she thought the word soon. Meanwhile, in another part of town, he felt as if the world was opening. Life was rearranging itself; bulging in places, fraying in spots. He felt himself changing, too, but into what? So much can happen in a summer.
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(As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth BY Perkins, ...)
As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth BY Perkins, Lynne Rae ( Author ) { Paperback } 2012
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(What does it take to make snow music? A boy and a girl. ...)
What does it take to make snow music? A boy and a girl. Neighbors. A squirrel, rabbit, deer, and bird. Also neighbors. A dog. Lost and then found. And snow falling. Peth. And melting. Drip. And falling again. Peth. Peth. Peth. You can listen. You can also sing along.
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( Wait The train was moving. Ry could hardly tell at fir...)
Wait The train was moving. Ry could hardly tell at first, but now he knew. It was gaining speed, and he wasn't fast enough to catch it. He had only gotten off for a minute, just to make a phone call—and now it was gone. He was in the middle of nowhere, alone. Maybe it was the middle of nowhere, but to Ry, it felt like the beginning of something. Something that would take him in cars, planes, boats . . . over an ocean and back. Something like an adventure.
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( There are times when hearing a familiar story -- even a...)
There are times when hearing a familiar story -- even a story about how your mother fell and broke her arm when she was a little girl -- can be comforting. And so it was for Andy, and for his cat, Frank. Because the important thing is that injuries heal. When they have healed, they become stories -- and sometimes a story with a happy ending is exactly what is needed. If you are looking for the perfect book about love and families and intergenerational support (to say nothing of cats), look no further.
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( How far would you go for a friend? In Nuts to You, the ...)
How far would you go for a friend? In Nuts to You, the funny and moving illustrated novel by Newbery Medalist Lynne Rae Perkins, two squirrels go very far indeed to save a friend who has been snatched up by a hawk. Nuts to You “begs to be read aloud . . . another completely original and exceptional package from Perkins,” said the Horn Book. Nuts to You features black-and-white art by the author on every page, as well as exclusive material original to this edition. Jed, TsTs, and Chai are the very best of friends. So when Jed is snatched up by a hawk and carried away to another realm, TsTs and Chai resolve to go after him. Mysteriously, the hawk has dropped him. They saw it. Jed could be alive. New communities are discovered, new friends are made, huge danger is encountered (both man-made and of the fox and bobcat variety) and the mysteries of squirrel culture are revealed. Nuts to You is wholly original, funny, lively, and thought-provoking. Publishers Weekly said, “Readers . . . will relish the squirrels’ adventures, as well as Perkins’s laugh-aloud illustrations and equally witty footnotes.” Includes an introduction, epilogue, and footnotes throughout, as well as original exclusive material from the author.
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Pennsylvania State University. University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
"In 38 brief chapters, this poetic, postmodern novel experiments with a variety of styles: haiku, song lyrics, question-and-answer dialogue and split-screen scenarios. With seeming yet deliberate randomness, Perkins writes an orderly, innovative, and risk-taking book in which nothing happens and everything happens."
Perkins" picture book Home Lovely was a runner-up for the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. Her novel All Alone in the Universe was named an American Library Association Notable Book, a Booklist Editor"s Choice, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book, and a Smithsonian Magazine Notable Book for Children.
Perkins was born and raised in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, a suburb fourteen miles northeast of Pittsburgh in the Allegheny River Valley.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts at The Pennsylvania State University in 1978 and her Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1981.
( How far would you go for a friend? In Nuts to You, the ...)
( There are times when hearing a familiar story -- even a...)
(Lynne Rae Perkins's first book, Home Lovely, was hailed b...)
(Debbie is dismayed when her best friend Maureen starts sp...)
(As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth BY Perkins, ...)
( When Debbie gives Tina a cardboard piano, she is sure t...)
(Use Novel-Ties ® study guides as your total guided readin...)
(What does it take to make snow music? A boy and a girl. ...)
("Before last summer Maureen and I were best friends....At...)
(Debbie is wishing something would happen. Something good....)
( She wished something would happen. Something good. To ...)
( Wait The train was moving. Ry could hardly tell at fir...)
(Ry is on his way to camp. Too bad he didn't open his mail...)
Quotations: "Writing in a wry, omniscient third-person narrative voice, Perkins deftly captures the tentativeness and incompleteness of adolescence".