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122 pp.
| Random
| August, 2012
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TradeISBN 978-0-375-86851-1$15.99
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LibraryISBN 978-0-375-96851-8$18.99
(3)
4-6
Illustrated by
Elicia Castaldi.
Now-eighth-grader Ginny (Middle School Is Worse than Meatloaf) makes the cheerleading team and starts dating. But stepfather Bob loses his job, Mom has a preemie baby, older brother Henry is in trouble again, and Ginny is diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. This pithy yet comprehensive chronicle of the family's ups and downs is again presented as an eye-catching scrapbook including notes, pictures, school assignments, and lists.
120 pp.
| Atheneum/Seo
| July, 2007
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TradeISBN 978-0-689-85281-7$12.99
(3)
4-6
Illustrated by
Elicia Castaldi.
Ginny's event-filled seventh-grade year is presented through attractively doodled to-do lists, notes, report cards, writing assignments, and IMs. Her widowed mother dates and remarries, her troubled older brother gets sent to military school, and Ginny contends with friendships old and new. A well-rounded portrait of Ginny and her family shines through the concise entries.
32 pp.
| Putnam
| October, 2003
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TradeISBN 0-399-23857-3$$15.99
(3)
PS
Illustrated by
Elicia Castaldi
&
Elicia Castaldi.
Edwards adds verses to the traditional song about Miss Polly's sick dolly. In the extended story, her dolly takes her prescribed pills and, when healthy again, celebrates with ice cream. The endpapers contain the musical arrangement and instructions for body motions. The cheerful, stylized paint and collage illustrations on their clean white background are as playful and silly as the song.