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Jerry Spinelli

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60+ verk 50,652 medlemmar 1,282 recensioner 50 favoritmärkta

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Jerry Spinelli was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania on February 1, 1941. He received a bachelor's degree from Gettysburg College and a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University. He worked as an editor with Chilton from 1966 to 1989. He launched his career in children's literature with Space visa mer Station 7th Grade in 1982. He has written over 30 books including The Bathwater Gang, Picklemania, Stargirl, Milkweed, and Mama Seeton's Whistle. In 1991, he won the Newbery Award for Maniac Magee. In 1998, Wringer was named a Newbery Honor book. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Verk av Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl (2000) 10,395 exemplar
Maniac Magee (1990) 9,180 exemplar
Loser (2003) 3,852 exemplar
Wringer (1997) 3,502 exemplar
Milkweed (1994) 2,971 exemplar
Crash (1996) 2,467 exemplar
Love, Stargirl (2007) 2,376 exemplar
Fourth Grade Rats (1991) 2,214 exemplar
The Library Card (1997) 2,156 exemplar
Eggs (2007) 1,552 exemplar
Smiles to Go (2008) 1,365 exemplar
Knots in My Yo-Yo String (1998) 1,133 exemplar
Third Grade Angels (2012) 958 exemplar
Do the Funky Pickle (1992) 600 exemplar
Jake and Lily (2012) 515 exemplar
There's a Girl in My Hammerlock (1991) 501 exemplar
Picklemania! (1993) 358 exemplar
Hokey Pokey (2013) 351 exemplar
Space Station Seventh Grade (1982) 322 exemplar
The Warden's Daughter (2017) 302 exemplar
I Can Be Anything! (2010) 280 exemplar
Tooter Pepperday (1995) 146 exemplar
Jason and Marceline (1986) 138 exemplar
Dump Days (1988) 98 exemplar
The Bathwater Gang (1990) 90 exemplar
Stargirl Journal (2007) 88 exemplar
Blue Ribbon Blues (1998) 80 exemplar
Dead Wednesday (2021) 69 exemplar
My Daddy and Me (2003) 59 exemplar
Mama Seeton's Whistle (2015) 46 exemplar
School Daze Collection (1993) 21 exemplar
The Mighty Crashman (2002) 18 exemplar
My Fourth of July (2019) 15 exemplar
Jerry Spinelli Collection (2004) 10 exemplar
Night of the Whale (1985) 7 exemplar
Particelle atomiche (2022) 2 exemplar
O MANÍACO MAGEE 1 exemplar
Mongoose [novelette] — Författare — 1 exemplar
His Promised Land 1 exemplar
Quarta elementare 1 exemplar

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Guys Write for Guys Read (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 764 exemplar
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 342 exemplar
Half-Minute Horrors (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 277 exemplar
It's Fine To Be Nine (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 121 exemplar
Baseball Crazy: Ten Short Stories that Cover All the Bases (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 118 exemplar
Connections (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 44 exemplar

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YA boy coming of age from 80's or 90's i Name that Book (november 2011)

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Jake and Lily are twins who just turn 11 as the story begins, each chapter is written alternately by them. This is a lovely story about growing up and growing into individuals. Jake and Lily get to meet their long-missed grandfather, Poppy and discover that being twins doesn’t mean they have to do everything together. Lily reminds the reader of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird with her independence and determination. There’s goombla, goobers and supergoobers-you’ll have to read the book to learn what they mean.
This is a great book to read this summer since that’s when the book takes place.
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BiblioQueen | 10 andra recensioner | Feb 5, 2024 |
Stargirl is cute but also a little but creepy like a stalker.

Be yourself and be nice to people. Try not to let the force of public opinion sway you - especially while in high school.
 
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hmonkeyreads | 373 andra recensioner | Jan 25, 2024 |
This was an interesting read, but I would never recommend it to a kid, and I'd doubt I'd have read it at all if the author weren't Jerry Spinelli. It seems more like a book written for adults (or maybe nostalgic teens) who want to dwell in a romanticized and stylized version of childhood. The language was creative, the plot a little dull, the setting cool. My one-star rating comes down to this: the reality of growing up is never as poetic and symbolic as it is in Hokey Pokey. Some readers will revel in Spinelli's fanciful prose-poetry and whimsy-laden metaphors. Others will feel nauseated. I went back and forth, but mostly felt nauseated.

There are obvious comparisons to be made to Peter Pan. Hokey Pokey seemed to me at first to be another version of Never-Never Land and Jack was an obvious Peter Pan-type leader. But that's kind of a misleading comparison. Jack's journey in this book is all about accepting that he's growing up and exiting childhood--there's nothing very Peter Pan in that. Also, there's no Captain Hook.
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LibrarianDest | 21 andra recensioner | Jan 3, 2024 |

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Verk
60
Även av
7
Medlemmar
50,652
Popularitet
#300
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
1,282
ISBN
665
Språk
13
Favoritmärkt
50

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