Gingersnap

✍ Scribed by Giff, Patricia Reilly

• Book ID: 107258091
• Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 82 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

It's 1944, W.W. II is raging. Jayna's big brother Rob is her only family. When Rob is called to duty on a destroyer, Jayna is left in their small town in upstate New York with their cranky landlady. But right before he leaves, Rob tells Jayna a secret: they may have a grandmother in Brooklyn. Rob found a little blue recipe book with her name and an address for a bakery. When Jayna learns that Rob is missing in action, she's devastated. Along with her turtle Theresa, the recipe book, and an encouraging, ghostly voice as her guide, Jayna sets out for Brooklyn in hopes of finding the family she so desperately needs.

Review

**Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, November 15, 2012:**“Jayna’s journey is a memorable one.”

About the Author

PATRICIA REILLY GIFF is the author of many beloved books for children, including the Kids of the Polk Street School books. Several of her novels for middle-grade readers have been chosen as ALA-ALSC Notable Books and ALA-YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. They includeВ The Gift of the Pirate Queen; All the Way Home; Water Street; Nory Ryan's Song,В a Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Honor Book for Fiction; and the Newbery Honor booksLily's CrossingВ andВ Pictures of Hollis Woods.В Lily's CrossingВ was also chosen as aBoston Globe-Horn BookВHonor Book. Her most recent novels areВ *R My Name Is Rachel, Storyteller, Eleven,*В andВ *Wild Girl;*В her books for younger readers in the Zigzag Kids series includeВ *Number One Kid, Big Whopper,*В andВ Flying Feet.В