Stucksville - Hardcover

DK Publishing; Greenwald, Sheila

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789426757 ISBN 13: 9780789426758

Publisher: Dk Pub, 2000

Synopsis

Disgusted with her latest home, Emerald eagerly waits for her family's next move, yet a school project forces her to take a second look at her surroundings which soon makes her see things in an entirely different light.

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About the Author

Sheila Greenwald has written and illustrated more than twenty-five books for children, including the fresh and funny Rosy Cole series. Some of the titles in that popular series are the ALA Notable Children's Book Give Us a Great Big Smile, Rosy Cole; Rosy Cole's Great American Guilt Club, winner of a Parents' Choice Award for Literature; and the recent Rosy Cole: She Grows and Graduates, a Junior Literary Guild selection. Publishers Weekly said, "Greenwald's ear is finely tuned to contemporary fads and fashions, which she spoofs brilliantly." She and her husband live in New York City.

From Publishers Weekly

Living with her struggling actor/waiter parents, the fourth-grade heroine of this witty novel knows that the only sure thing is change: her family has moved half a dozen times already, most recently to Manhattan. However, faced with a class assignment about "My New York," Emerald finds herself making unexpected connections to her community. At first she thinks, "It was no more her New York than it had been her Louisville or Minneapolis or Duluth or any of the other places her parents had gone to work with high hopes and big dreams." Then Emerald teams with the super's bossy daughter Angel and artistic Guthry to create miniature replicas of their apartmentsAEmerald's complete with her parents' all-purpose trunk/table, broken springs and dust balls. Greenwald (the Rosy Cole series) sensitively tackles Emerald's shame about her apartment and her struggle between staying detached and investing herself in her surroundings. An entertaining Rear Window-style subplot has Emerald staring into other people's windows and intervening as part detective, part superhero, saving a person and facilitating a romance, until her well-intentioned phone call to the fire department over a flaming dessert brings humiliation. The tidy conclusion skirts a few issues, but otherwise Greenwald supplies a satisfying story about the meaning of home. Ages 7-11. (Oct.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dk Pub
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0789426757
• ISBN 13: 9780789426758
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112