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Nancy Keane's | Booktalks -- Quick and Simple | |
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Beasley, Kate.
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Booktalk #1 Gertie starts 5th grade with one mission, to be the greatest 5th grader. Since her mother left her and her father when she was a baby, Gertie wants to prove to her that she missed out on a wonderful daughter. Feisty Gertie’s plans begin successfully, until new girl Mary Sue Spivey joins her class. Mary Sue also wants to be the best 5th grader. As Mary Sue begins to surpass her in classwork, Gertie needs to find a way to shine. When auditions start for the 5th grade play, Gertie sees her opportunity. Who will earn the role of Evangelina in the class play, and be the best 5th grader? Gertie proves being true to herself has its rewards in this wildly entertaining school story. (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2017-2018) Booktalk #2 Gertie Foy is on a mission to make herself the world's best fifth grader. Once there, she'll confront her mother, who abandoned Gertie as an infant, and hopefully prevent her from moving out of town. She will do this by improving her grades and earn the lead in the school play. Unfortunately, the new girl, seat-stealer Mary Sue Spivey, upsets Gertie's big plans for success with plans of her own. Can Gertie put aside her own fears to stay the course or will she bend to the will of Mary Sue and lose everything that she has worked so hard for? With support from her loving father, her great-aunt, her teacher and her best friend, Gertie navigates fifth grade with spunk and a vulnerability that makes the reader cheer on the underdog. GARDEN STATE CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS, 2019 |
| SUBJECTS: Abandoned children -- Fiction. Mothers -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction. |
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