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Jerry Spinelli

Auteur de Stargirl

60+ oeuvres 50,758 utilisateurs 1,282 critiques 50 Favoris

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Jerry Spinelli was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania on February 1, 1941. He received a bachelor's degree from Gettysburg College and a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University. He worked as an editor with Chilton from 1966 to 1989. He launched his career in children's literature with Space afficher plus Station 7th Grade in 1982. He has written over 30 books including The Bathwater Gang, Picklemania, Stargirl, Milkweed, and Mama Seeton's Whistle. In 1991, he won the Newbery Award for Maniac Magee. In 1998, Wringer was named a Newbery Honor book. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

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Œuvres de Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl (2000) 10,414 exemplaires
Maniac Magee (1990) 9,201 exemplaires
Loser (2003) 3,861 exemplaires
Wringer (1997) 3,511 exemplaires
Milkweed (1994) 2,976 exemplaires
Crash (1996) 2,471 exemplaires
Love, Stargirl (2007) 2,378 exemplaires
Fourth Grade Rats (1991) 2,221 exemplaires
The Library Card (1997) 2,162 exemplaires
Oeuf (2007) 1,555 exemplaires
Smiles to Go (2008) 1,367 exemplaires
Knots in My Yo-Yo String (1998) 1,141 exemplaires
Third Grade Angels (2012) 960 exemplaires
Report to the Principal's Office (1991) 948 exemplaires
Do the Funky Pickle (1992) 602 exemplaires
Jake and Lily (2012) 517 exemplaires
There's a Girl in My Hammerlock (1991) 501 exemplaires
Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush? (1984) 476 exemplaires
Picklemania! (1993) 359 exemplaires
Hokey Pokey (2013) 351 exemplaires
Space Station Seventh Grade (1982) 321 exemplaires
The Warden's Daughter (2017) 302 exemplaires
I Can Be Anything! (2010) 281 exemplaires
The Stargirl Collection (2-in-1) (2007) 257 exemplaires
Tooter Pepperday (1995) 147 exemplaires
Jason and Marceline (1986) 138 exemplaires
Dump Days (1988) 98 exemplaires
The Bathwater Gang (1990) 90 exemplaires
Stargirl Journal (2007) 88 exemplaires
Blue Ribbon Blues (1998) 80 exemplaires
Dead Wednesday (2021) 68 exemplaires
My Daddy and Me (2003) 59 exemplaires
Mama Seeton's Whistle (2015) 46 exemplaires
School Daze Collection (1993) 21 exemplaires
The Mighty Crashman (2002) 18 exemplaires
My Fourth of July (2019) 15 exemplaires
Jerry Spinelli Collection (2004) 10 exemplaires
Night of the Whale (1985) 7 exemplaires
Particelle atomiche (2022) 2 exemplaires
Magee, zis Maniacul 1 exemplaire
O MANÍACO MAGEE 1 exemplaire
Mongoose [novelette] — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
His Promised Land 1 exemplaire
Quarta elementare 1 exemplaire
Zinkoff, el inútil 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Guys Write for Guys Read (2005) — Contributeur — 766 exemplaires
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (2008) — Contributeur — 346 exemplaires
Half-Minute Horrors (2009) — Contributeur — 278 exemplaires
It's Fine To Be Nine (2000) — Contributeur — 121 exemplaires
Baseball Crazy: Ten Short Stories that Cover All the Bases (2008) — Contributeur — 118 exemplaires
Connections (1989) — Contributeur — 44 exemplaires

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BooksInMirror | 16 autres critiques | Feb 19, 2024 |
Jake and Lily are twins who just turn 11 as the story begins, each chapter is written alternately by them. This is a lovely story about growing up and growing into individuals. Jake and Lily get to meet their long-missed grandfather, Poppy and discover that being twins doesn’t mean they have to do everything together. Lily reminds the reader of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird with her independence and determination. There’s goombla, goobers and supergoobers-you’ll have to read the book to learn what they mean.
This is a great book to read this summer since that’s when the book takes place.
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BiblioQueen | 10 autres critiques | Feb 5, 2024 |
Stargirl is cute but also a little but creepy like a stalker.

Be yourself and be nice to people. Try not to let the force of public opinion sway you - especially while in high school.
 
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hmonkeyreads | 373 autres critiques | Jan 25, 2024 |
This was an interesting read, but I would never recommend it to a kid, and I'd doubt I'd have read it at all if the author weren't Jerry Spinelli. It seems more like a book written for adults (or maybe nostalgic teens) who want to dwell in a romanticized and stylized version of childhood. The language was creative, the plot a little dull, the setting cool. My one-star rating comes down to this: the reality of growing up is never as poetic and symbolic as it is in Hokey Pokey. Some readers will revel in Spinelli's fanciful prose-poetry and whimsy-laden metaphors. Others will feel nauseated. I went back and forth, but mostly felt nauseated.

There are obvious comparisons to be made to Peter Pan. Hokey Pokey seemed to me at first to be another version of Never-Never Land and Jack was an obvious Peter Pan-type leader. But that's kind of a misleading comparison. Jack's journey in this book is all about accepting that he's growing up and exiting childhood--there's nothing very Peter Pan in that. Also, there's no Captain Hook.
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LibrarianDest | 21 autres critiques | Jan 3, 2024 |

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Œuvres
60
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7
Membres
50,758
Popularité
#300
Évaluation
3.8
Critiques
1,282
ISBN
665
Langues
13
Favoris
50

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