by Kate Beasley
Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
You will love Gertie Reece Foy. She is only a fifth grader, but her dreams and motivations are the same as yours. She wants to earn the love of her mother. But nothing important like love can be earned by our own efforts.
What's different about this book
The author's writing continually weaves Gertie's assumptions about life with information about her secure, accepting environment and her quiet, complex thinking about how she can make things better. The reader can feel, even identifies with, Gertie's thinking - it is evocative of our own best-laid plans. (Even the pony-tail on top of her head is part of her strategic thinking.)
What I'll do now that I've read it
The story is not just one more cute-kid story. The details of her life and environment evoke the reader's empathy and support. This will be a great read for elementary, middle grades, and even high school - the problems Gertie faces are common to us all, and her resolution and her learning will echo with us all.
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