Nora wants to make new friends, and she wants to be like the doorman Henry and know all the people in her building -- all 200 of them. Newly redesigned and reillustrated, Hurwitz's Riverside Kids popular chapter book series shows urban as well as suburban kids what being a good neighbor is all about. Illustrations.
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Johanna Hurwitz is the award-winning author of more than sixty popular books for young readers, including Faraway Summer; Dear Emma; Elisa Michaels, Bigger & Better; Class Clown; Fourth-Grade Fuss; and Rip-Roaring Russell, an American Library Association Notable Book. Her work has won many child-chosen state awards. A former school librarian, she frequently visits schools around the country to talk about her books. Mrs. Hurwitz and her husband divide their time between Great Neck, New York, and Wilmington, Vermont.
About the first book starring this irrepressible heroine, PW said, "Six joyous stories. . .will make six-year-old Nora and her little brother the favorite fiction friends of all readers, any age. Ages 7-10.
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