About this title: After her parents divorce, Elana Rose Rosen and her mother move to a housing project in a big city. Elana spends her summer days traveling through her new community on her trusty scooter, getting to know her neighbors and the rhythms of life in the city.
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Description: Good. Purchasing this DVD supports the North Central Regional Library. Thriftbooks and NCRL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Library ID found on DVD and case. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Purchasing this DVD supports the North Central Regional Library. Thriftbooks and NCRL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Library ID found on DVD and case. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780688093778ISBN:0688093779
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Good general condition. Pages clean and unmarked. Library tags on back cover and spine. Protective plastic covering. Library binding. Cloth over boards. 147 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. The story of a girl growing up in New York City. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Description: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. 1993. Hardcover. 1st Ed. Used, very good. Very good overall with light to moderate wear. No dust jacket. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780688093761ISBN:0688093760
Description: Williams, Vera B. Good. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. hb, 1993, nice clean copy, has some signatures & writing inside front covers from previous owner, some very minor shelf wear, binding tight, SKU-A202, A small family business committed to BIG service! Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 160 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
"My 8-year-old daughter was pulled into a special group to read this -- and tomorrow, to hear the author speak. She begged me to join (in the reading and the trip), and it's hard not to embrace her love of words.
I wish, though, that I'd loved this book.
It skews quite a bit younger than she usually reads (which is funny, as the narrator/protagonist is her age). And it just didn't resonate with me.
It's a sweet tale of a girl adjusting to life in NYC. But not anything that will stay with me very long.
"I never knew that Vera B. Williams wrote anything longer than picture and short poetry books until I found this novel. It's about a girl who moves to an apartment in New York City, and the people she meets in her apartment building as she rides her scooter around and makes friends. It took place during the course of one summer, and the way Williams makes you feel as if you're there, with little details of daily life, I think it's got to be all or partly autobiographical. I liked the relationship between Elana and her mother, who were on their own after Elana's father left. Williams does a good job of portraying what it's like to throw a tantrum and lose control of oneself. I would like to read more about Elana's adventures--wish she'd write a sequel!"
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