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Eleven

by Giff, Patricia Reilly

When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the hel...

Maggie's Door

by Giff, Patricia Reilly

In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and friend, Sean, set out separately on a dangerous journey from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to reach a better life ...

Nory Ryan's Song

by Giff, Patricia Reilly

When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.

Lily's Crossing

by Giff, Patricia Reilly

During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.

Show Time at the Polk Street School

Plays You Can Do Yourself or in the Classroom

by Giff, Patricia Reilly & Sims, Blanche

Three plays featuring the students in Ms. Rooney's class: "The Candy Corn Contest," "The Secret at Polk Street School," and "Fancy Feet."

Laura Ingalls Wilder

growing up in the little house

by Giff, Patricia Reilly & McKeating, Eileen

A biography of the author of the "Little House" books, including the years of her marriage to Almanzo Wilder.

Love, from the fifth-grade celebrity

by Giff, Patricia Reilly & Morrill, Leslie H.

Casey enjoyed Tracy's company during summer vacation but becomes increasingly jealous of her irrepressible new friend when she joins Casey's fifth-grade class.