

Gracie's Girl
Author: Ellen Wittlinger
Narrator: Stina Nielsen
Unabridged: 4 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 02/27/2015
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes
Author: Ellen Wittlinger
Narrator: Stina Nielsen
Unabridged: 4 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 02/27/2015
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes
Ellen Wittlinger is the author of seventeen YA and middle-grade novels. Her novel Hard Love won both a Printz Honor Award and a Lambda Literary Award. Her books have been on numerous ALA Best Books lists, Bank Street College of Education lists and state award lists. Ellen has won state awards in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Her work has been translated into many other languages including Turkish, Croatian and Korean. She has taught at Emerson College in Boston and in the Simmons College Writing for Children MFA program.
I've mentioned this before, but the second half of Ellen Wittlinger's career is far stronger than the first half. I actually really like novels like Parrotfish and This Means War!, which came in the late 2000's. But of the novels I've read from the early 2000's, all of them are much weaker. I supp......more
This review has been crossposted from my blog at The Cosy Dragon. Please head there for more in-depth reviews by me, which appear on a timely schedule. Bess is a new 6th grader. She's determined to appear different and make some cool new friends. Soon her perspective on what is important in life is......more
This is a very nice books it teaches you how looks don't matter and that helping a person might even give you luck I enjoy about how bess is trying to be popular but slowly learning how popularity in middle school won't help you in the future this book has taught me so Many lessons especially how I......more
I like Wittlinger's writing. The plot was fine, but a less up my alley, about a girl who wants to be unique, and finds that helping a homeless woman and participating in the school play are more important than the way she dresses in reaching this goal. Nice kid and family, very realistic feelings an......more