Gingersnap -- Patricia Reilly Giff, Paperback

It's 1944, W.W. II is raging. Jayna's big brother Rob is her only family. When Rob is called to duty on a destroyer, Jayna is left in their small town in upstate New York with their cranky landlady. But right before he leaves, Rob tells Jayna a secret: they may have a grandmother in Brooklyn. Rob found a little blue recipe book with her name and an address for a bakery. When Jayna learns that Rob is missing in action, she's devastated. Along with her turtle Theresa, the recipe book, and an encouraging, ghostly voice as her guide, Jayna sets out for Brooklyn in hopes of finding the family she so desperately needs.

Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Yearling Books
Published: 01/07/2014
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780440421788
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.8
Point Value: 4
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 156082 / Gingersnap

Award: Volunteer State Book Awards - Nominee
Award: William Allen White Childens Book Award - Nominee
Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Nominee

About the Author
PATRICIA REILLY GIFF is the author of many beloved books for children, including the Kids of the Polk Street School books. Several of her novels for middle-grade readers have been chosen as ALA-ALSC Notable Books and ALA-YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. They include The Gift of the Pirate Queen; All the Way Home; Water Street; Nory Ryan's Song, a Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Honor Book for Fiction; and the Newbery Honor books Lily's Crossing and Pictures of Hollis Woods. Lily's Crossing was also chosen as a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book. Her most recent novels are R My Name Is Rachel, Storyteller, Eleven, and Wild Girl; her books for younger readers in the Zigzag Kids series include Number One Kid, Big Whopper, and Flying Feet.