...
Show More
Nothing will top Bridge to Terabithia by the same author, and this book was nowhere close. A bit disappointing.
Ease Reading-Find Your Next Favorite Book
Flip-Flop Girl
...
Show More
Written by Newbery Medalist, National Book Award winner, and Laura Ingalls Wilder Award recipient, and author of Bridge to Terabithia .
Vinnie Matthews needs a real lifesaver--on that will bring her father back to life and let her family go home. Living with Grandma means having to be responsible for her little brother, Mason, who refuses to speak, and ignoring the kids who ask why he's so crazy. Then Vinnie meets Lupe, the mysterious "flip-flop girl" who only wears orange flip-flops on her feet. Lupe is strong, confisent, and even more of an outsact than Vinnie. She's just teh type of friends Vinnie needs, if only Vinnie can ignore the rumora about Lupe's past.
Vinnie Matthews needs a real lifesaver--on that will bring her father back to life and let her family go home. Living with Grandma means having to be responsible for her little brother, Mason, who refuses to speak, and ignoring the kids who ask why he's so crazy. Then Vinnie meets Lupe, the mysterious "flip-flop girl" who only wears orange flip-flops on her feet. Lupe is strong, confisent, and even more of an outsact than Vinnie. She's just teh type of friends Vinnie needs, if only Vinnie can ignore the rumora about Lupe's past.
128 pages, Paperback
First published March 1,1994
This edition
- Format
-
128 pages, Paperback
- Published
-
February 1, 1996 by Puffin Books
- ISBN
-
9780140376791
- ASIN
-
0140376798
- Language
-
English
About the author
...
Show More
Katherine Womeldorf Paterson is an American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia. For four different books published 1975–1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of four people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in children's literature. Also for her body of work she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2007 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the American Library Association in 2013. She was the second US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2010 and 2011.
Readers also enjoyed
Community Reviews
Rating(4 / 5.0, 67 votes)
5 stars
20(30%)
4 stars
24(36%)
3 stars
23(34%)
2 stars
0(0%)
1 stars
0(0%)
67 reviews All reviews
...
Show More
I think this was a very ... interesting book. It's not my favorite type of book, because it was too short and longer books tend to have more detail which i like but I would recommend it.
...
Show More
This book for kids is about siblings who recently lost their father. Little Mason refuses to talk and older Vinnie is supposed to "help" her mother as they move into Grandmom's house, start at a new school and meet new friends. I can't really say what the point of this books is. That the kids were disturbed? That no one ever seemed to talk to Vinnie? That Grandmom and mom were both bullies and only seemed to care for Mason's problems? That the only adult nice to Vinnie ended up being the target of her vandalism? From an adult's perspective I know what the author wants to do with this, but frankly I can't see reading this book with fourth or fifth graders because I just don't think they'd get it. I think that Vinnie's responses to her life would make sense and the ending is too abrupt and doesn't actually resolve any of the problems. The only redeeming part of the book is that Vinnie learns that there are people who are kind no matter what and sometimes friends are found in the most surprising places.
...
Show More
I have to admit that I liked Bridge to Terabithia much better, but this was an okay story.
...
Show More
C: CHILDREN: No offensive language, sex or nudity but might contain occasional comedic Violence.
E:Easy: 3rd grade Vocabulary
Method: Physical Book
Location: Chautaugua-Cattaraugus Library System
E:Easy: 3rd grade Vocabulary
Method: Physical Book
Location: Chautaugua-Cattaraugus Library System
...
Show More
I quick read for a Saturday morning. A bit heartrending, but as good as I expected.
...
Show More
I remember having really intense feelings about this book but can't remember if I loved/hated it... I'm leaning more towards "loved, but it was too depressing for that already depressing time in my life, so I can't remember and didn't want to reread"?
...
Show More
chapter book 5th grade and up. Like many of Patterson's book, poignant.
Leave a Review