Books with author Giff Patricia

In a humorous and entertaining guide, two-time Newbery Honor-winning author Patricia Reilly Giff breaks down the process of writing fiction into steps, all while trying to cope with the constant distractions from her exuberant seventy-pound golden retriever puppy, Rosie. Citing examples from her award-winning novels she explains how to proceed with each step in chapter sections titled “Can You See What I Did?” Young writers can find the inspiration and tips they need to try their hand in sections called “Your Turn.” Anecdotes from her writing life and hilarious adventures with her high-energy pet provide entertainment and encouragement.

Patricia Reilly Giff, a 1998 Newbery Honor winner for Lily's Crossing, takes us on a journey to Philadelphia! Richard "Beast" and the Polk Street kids are off to the City of Brotherly Love. They get to see the Liberty Bell, the Declaration of Independence, and Benjamin Franklin's inventions. Will the day be ruined when they find out that Mrs. Miller, "the Killer," the substitute teacher, is coming along?

"You never help people," Jiwon says.Her friend is right. Stacy can't remember the last time she'd helped anyone! Now Mrs. Zachary wants her class to be people-helpers and prepare a Spectacular Stone Soup together.Stacy works hard to be helpful, but no one seems to notice. Can quick thinking and a bunch of onions turn her into a spectacular people-helper?

Stacy can't wait to start her new class project, making an "About-Me" box. Into it will go special things that she likes. Jiwon's putting a scrap of her old baby dress in her About-Me box. Eddie's putting pictures of food in his. But Stacy can't think of one thing to put in hers.How can Stacy make her About-Me box as special as Jiwon's or Eddie's? She has to do something fast. Can she turn her box of troubles into a box of delights?

When Pop Art burst on the art scene in the 1950s as a reaction against abstract expressionism, it found instant favor with its colorful use of images from advertising, signs, soup cans, Coke bottles, and even comic strips. This playfulness is front and center in Draw Like an Artist: Pop Art: a collection of eighteen fun and colorful activities for aspiring Warhols, Hockneys, and Lichtensteins ages ten and up, or anyone who enjoys working with color, pattern, and pop-culture imagery, and gaining a better understanding of the 20th century's most popular art movement. Sixteen perforated pages provide plenty of raw material for collage, drawing backgrounds, and inspiration.

Alice Paul fought for women and made trouble too. In her time, virtually no American woman, was allowed to vote. She was a sham citizen without a voice in her own government. Relentlessly, Alice attacked this inequality. She confronted egregious offenders against women’s rights, from rowdies in the streets, to the all-male (save one) United States Congress, to President Woodrow Wilson himself. And she prevailed. Intrepid Alice did it like Gandhi did, by making her oppressors condemn themselves…in public.Alice Paul evolved from a privileged childhood steeped in Quaker values, and later, through her chance encounters in England with the beautiful militant, Christabel Pankhurst and a redoubtable red-head, Lucy Burns, she utilized these values as a suffragette. Alice always played hard for the cause, and in return suffered hunger strikes and forced feedings in British prisons. These ordeals, however, forged the tough young woman who became the leader of the American suffragists, the legendary “Iron Jawed Angels.”With her single-minded focus on passage of the 19th Amendment, Alice Paul was ingenious in her mobilization of resources, and unconquerable under her American jailers’ cruel tactics. Sadly though, her challenges weren’t restricted to the men who attacked her followers, a virulent faction of fellow suffragists actively decried her bold methods. Additionally there was rampant racial bias, and the intransigence of cultural roles. This American history not only teaches, it enables. Today’s enlightened activists can look to Alice for more than inspiration; they can scrutinize her methods for making effective change. Since there’s work left to be done, questions about our 21st century values arise. Do females and males earn the same pay for the same job? Do all organized religions offer parity for women? Did the Equal Rights Amendment ever pass? And do we still need #Metoo? What would Alice do?Readers have an opportunity to weigh in on these issues and still more raised in Alice Paul, Suffragist for Today’s Woman, at http://www.patriciacuff.com Chat about questions regarding the suffragists’ tepid response to racial inclusion, the impact of militant activism, and an examination of the place of money in politics. Look hard at Alice’s methods for making effective history. They worked.

This week the kids at the Zigzag Afternoon Center are being creative, and trying new things. But that's not so easy for Destiny. All of her ideas turn into disasters—until she finds out what a good poet she is. The sixth book in award-winning author Patricia Reilly Giff's Zigzag Kids series captures all the excitement of new friends and after-school fun.

We will dance on the cliffs of Brooklyn.Maggie’s Door is the story of the journey from Ireland to America told by both Nory and her neighbor and friend Sean Red Mallon, two different stories with the same destination—the home of Nory’s sister Maggie, at 416 Smith Street, Brooklyn, America. Patricia Reilly Giff calls upon her long research into Irish history and her great powers as a storyteller in this deeply involving, riveting stand-alone companion novel to Nory Ryan’s Song.

Mitchell really doesn't want to go camping with the other kids at the Zigzag Afternoon Center. Sleeping in the woods with creepy crawly things, coyotes, and bears? Yikes! But his best friend Habib is going, and it's Mitchell's birthday that weekend. He's just got to find a way to be brave, and scare the bears away!As the fifth book in the Zigzag Kids series—which also includes Number One Kid, Big Whopper, Flying Feet, and Star Time—Bears Beware continues to delight readers with award-winning author Patricia Reilly Giff's quirky, lovable group of kids, capturing all the excitement and surprises of new friends and after-school fun.