Gracie's Girl

Name: Gracie's Girl
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ellen Wittlinger
ISBN: 9781490672878

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

Synopsis

Bess Cunningham has never been popular, and she plans to do something about it. She's got a fresh style with plenty of unique clothes, and she's the new stage manager for the musical at her middle school. She couldn't care less about the volunteer work her parents do at a soup kitchen until she meets Grace Jarvis Battle. The kind, elderly woman reminds Bess of her grandmothers except for one significant difference--Grace lives on the street and finds food in dumpsters. Because of Grace, Bess begins to think about her priorities and realizes there are more important things in life than trying to win friends with a few wild outfits. Ellen Wittlinger won a Michael L. Printz Honor for her writing and is praised for her ability to tackle important topics from original perspectives. Narrator Stina Nielsen perfectly captures the confusion so many middle-schoolers face as they desperately try to find their place in the world.

About Ellen Wittlinger

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike on February 19, 2016

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

Goodreads review by TheCosyDragon on February 01, 2015

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

Goodreads review by Colleen7412 on July 03, 2014

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

Goodreads review by Cheryl on July 22, 2010

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

Goodreads review by Lindsey on December 19, 2007

I read this book with my 9 year old sister for a book report she was doing for school. It is a really cute book and has a good lesson in it.......more