Name: Water Street (Nory Ryan)
SKU: 1925745
Price: 184.00 ZAR
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Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
ISBN: 9780440419211

Type

Physical Book

Author

Patricia Reilly Giff

Publisher

Dell Childrens Intl

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

164

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0440419212

ISBN13

9780440419211

Synopsis "Water Street (Nory Ryan) "

Brooklyn, 1875: Bird Mallon lives on Water Street where you can see the huge towers of the bridge to Manhattan being built. Bird wants nothing more in life than to be brave enough to be a healer, like her mother, Nory, to help her sister Annie find love, and to convince her brother, Hughie, to stop fighting for money with his street gang. And of course, she wishes that a girl would move into the empty apartment upstairs so that she can have a new friend close by. But Thomas Neary and his Pop move in upstairs. Thomas who writes about his life in his journal--his father who spends each night at the Tavern down the street, the mother he wishes he had, and the Mallon family downstairs that he desperately wants to be a part of. Thomas, who has a secret that only Bird suspects, and who turns out to be the best friend Bird could ever have.

Patricia Reilly Giff

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Patricia Jeanne Reilly Giff (Brooklyn, 26 de abril de 1935 – † 22 de junio de 2021) fue una destacada escritora y educadora infantil estadounidense. Egresada con B.A. en Marymount Manhattan College, obtuvo luego un M.A. en St. John’s University y un Diploma Profesional en Lectura, así como un Doctorado Honoris Causa en Letras Humanas por Hofstra University. Durante unos veinte años se desempeñó como maestra en escuelas públicas, experiencia que influyó profundamente en sus libros para jóvenes lectores.

Giff escribió más de cien libros y es especialmente conocida por sus series Kids of the Polk Street School, Polka Dot Private Eye y novelas como Lily’s Crossing, Pictures of Hollis Woods, Nory Ryan’s Song o All the Way Home. Su obra recibió varios reconocimientos importantes: Lily’s Crossing y Pictures of Hollis Woods obtuvieron el Newbery Honor, Nory Ryan’s Song fue nombrado ALA Best Book for Young Adults, y otros de sus textos han sido galardonados o elogiados por asociaciones literarias y educacionales.

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