Jerry Spinelli

A garota chamada Estrela. Ela é tão mágica quanto o céu do deserto. É tão estranha quanto seu rato de estimação. É tão misteriosa quanto seu próprio nome. Com um simples sorriso, ela cativa totalmente o coração de Leo Borlock. Com sua alegria, ela incendeia uma revolução por liberdade e autenticidade no espírito de sua escola. No começo, os colegas encantam-se com ela por tudo o que a faz ser diferente. Mas isso começa a mudar, e Leo, apaixonado e apreensivo, percebe que a única coisa que pode salvá-la das críticas é a mesma que pode destruí-la: ser alguém comum. Nesta celebração do inconformismo, o premiado Jerry Spinelli tece um conto tenso e comovente sobre os percalços da necessidade de ser popular e da emoção e inspiração do primeiro amor.

Hoffnung wächst auf Schutt und Asche Ein Junge rennt durch Warschau. Er weiß nicht, wer er ist oder wohin er läuft. Er weiß nur, dass er leben will. Also stiehlt er und wird in eine Gruppe von Kindern aufgenommen, die genauso wild und ungezügelt wie er im Warschauer Untergrund leben. Hier bekommt er einen Namen und eine Geschichte: Von jetzt an ist er Mischa Pilsudski, der Sohn einer Zigeunerfamilie. Freiwillig geht er mit der jüdischen Familie der kleinen Janina ins Warschauer Ghetto, denn die traurigen Augen des Mädchens lassen Mischa nicht los ... Ein mehrfach ausgezeichneter Roman über eine Kindheit im Warschauer Ghetto - auch für den Schulunterricht geeignet.

Copila-Stea Calaway poartă rochii lungi și chimonouri, cântă la ukulele, e veselă și îi place să danseze. Mai toți colegii cred că e venită de pe o altă planetă sau că părinții ei sunt acrobați la circ. În primele săptămâni, întreg liceul e fascinat de nonconformismul ei. Dar oamenii sunt schimbători și capricioși, iar cei ce ies din rândul lumii nu sunt văzuți mereu cu ochi buni. În scurt timp Copilei-Stea i se cere să fie „normală“ – iar asta o poate distruge, pentru că înseamnă renunțarea la tot ce o face să fie ea însăși Carte adaugata pe goodreads de : Pandalovesbooks

Meet Crash Coogan. Crash seems to be all brawn and no brains, but he will need more than mere muscles to face the upcoming challenges in his life. Now available in paperback, Award-winner Jerry Spinelli has created a hilarious, poignant story of a cocky seventh-grade super-jock. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Worm Tarnauer has spent most of eighth grade living down to his nickname. He prefers to be out of sight, underground. He walked the world unseen. He's happy to let his best friend, Eddie, lead the way and rule the day. And this day--Dead Wednesday--is going to be awesome. The school thinks assigning each eighth grader the name of a teenager who died in the past year and having them don black shirts and become invisible will make them contemplate their own mortality. Yeah, sure. The kids know that being invisible to teachers really means you can get away with anything. It's a day to go wild! But Worm didn't count on Becca Finch (17, car crash). Letting this girl into his head is about to change everything.

Nine-year-old David has recently lost his mother to a freak accident, his salesman father is constantly on the road, and he is letting his anger out on his grandmother. Sarcastic and bossy 13-year-old Primrose lives with her childlike, fortuneteller mother, and a framed picture is the only evidence of the father she never knew. Despite their differences, David and Primrose forge a tight yet tumultuous friendship, eventually helping each other deal with what is missing in their lives. This powerful, quirky novel about two very complicated, damaged children has much to say about friendship, loss, and recovery.

Jake e Lily sono più che fratello e sorella. Sono gemelli. Nati sopra un treno che attraversava le montagne del Colorado, scoprono presto di avere un potere speciale: pensano e sentono le stesse cose nello stesso momento. Certo sarebbe difficile per loro giocare a nascondino perché si troverebbero subito! A questo prezioso segreto Jake e Lily danno uno strano nome: 'goombla'. I due gemelli sembrano davvero indivisibili... fino al giorno in cui sono gli altri a dividerli. Jake fa amicizia con Bump, un bullo alla continua ricerca di schiappe da prendere in giro. E non passa più il tempo con sua sorella, non la considera più. Lily soffre. Si sente esclusa. Su suggerimento di Poppy, il saggio nonno dal passato hippy, prova a cercarsi nuove amicizie e nuovi interessi. Ma tutto cambia quando Jake capisce che chi prende in giro una schiappa è più schiappa di lui...

When I grow up, what shall I be? This exuberant book offers up everything from a paper plane folder to a puppy dog holder, from a silly joke teller to a snowball smoother. Newbery-Award winning author Jerry Spinelli's simple and charming rhymes are accompanied by internationally-renowned illustrator Jimmy Liao's vibrant and fantastical illustrations. This book is an imaginative joyride about hopes and dreams, and a reminder of all the possibilities life has to offer. So, what do you want to be? Remember--you can be anything!

Jake and Lily are twins. Even though they seem pretty different—Jake is the calm one and Lily has a temper; Lily is obsessed with trains and Jake collects cool rocks—they feel exactly the same, almost like two halves of one person. When one of them gets hurt, the other can feel it. They can communicate without words. And mysteriously, every year on their birthday, they sleepwalk to a train station in the middle of the night. But the year they turn eleven, everything changes. Their parents announce it’s time for separate bedrooms, and Jake starts hanging out with a pack of boys on the block. Lily is devastated—not to mention really, really mad. And as she struggles to make friends and get a life apart from her twin, Jake finds himself dealing with a neighborhood bully and has to decide what kind of person he really is. Beloved author Jerry Spinelli has written another perfectly on-target, humorous, and brilliant story about the struggles of growing up and discovering who you are. This is a story about me, Lily. And me, Jake. We're twins and we're exactly alike. Not exactly! Whatever. This is a book we wrote about the summer we turned eleven and Jake ditched me. Please. I just started hanging out with some guys in the neighborhood. Right. So anyway, this is a book about goobers and supergoobers bullies clubhouses true friends things getting built and wrecked and rebuilt and about figuring out who we are. We wrote this together (sort of) so you'll get to see both sides of our story. But you'll probably agree with my side. You always have to have the last word, don't you? Yes!

Jason and Marceline have been friends since the end of seventh grade. Now in ninth grade, Jason's starting to think that they could be more than friends, and Marceline's starting to think so, too. But does the beginning of romance mean the end of their friendship?

From renowned Newbery-winning author Jerry Spinelli comes a powerful story about how not fitting in just might lead to an incredible life. This classic book is perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and Carl Hiaasen. Just like other kids, Zinkoff rides his bike, hopes for snow days, and wants to be like his dad when he grows up. But Zinkoff also raises his hand with all the wrong answers, trips over his own feet, and falls down with laughter over a word like "Jabip." Other kids have their own word to describe him, but Zinkoff is too busy to hear it. He doesn't know he's not like everyone else. And one winter night, Zinkoff's differences show that any name can someday become "hero." With some of his finest writing to date and great wit and humor, Jerry Spinelli creates a story about a boy's individuality surpassing the need to fit in and the genuine importance of failure. As readers follow Zinkoff from first through sixth grade, it becomes impossible not to identify with and root for him through failures and triumphs. The perfect classroom read.

LOVE, STARGIRL picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl . The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter," in diary form, going from date to date through a little more than a year's time. In her writing, Stargirl mixes memories of her bittersweet time in Mica, Arizona, with involvements with new people in her life. In Love, Stargirl , we hear the voice of Stargirl herself as she reflects on time, life, Leo, and - of course - love. From the Hardcover edition.

A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs. Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run--and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.

A stunning novel of the Holocaust from Newbery Medalist , Jerry Spinelli. And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday ! He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham. He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself, and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi, with tall, shiny jackboots of his own-until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. And when the trains come to empty the Jews from the ghetto of the damned, he's a boy who realizes it's safest of all to be nobody. Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli takes us to one of the most devastating settings imaginable-Nazi-occupied Warsaw during World War II-and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young Holocaust orphan.

Varsovie, Seconde Guerre mondiale. Misha est un gamin des rues, adopté par un groupe d’enfants juifs dirigé par Uri. Leur quotidien est fait de chapardages, de bagarres et de faim. En un mot, survivre. Mais la répression exercée par les nazis s’accentue, les Juifs sont enfermés dans un ghetto. Misha a beau répéter qu’il n’est même pas juif, cela ne le protège pas de la menace de la déportation.

Stargirl, la ragazza che gira con un topo in tasca e suona l'ukulele, vive adesso in Pennsylvania e attira a sé le persone più bizzarre: Dootsie, la bambina che fa esperimenti di magia; Betty Lou, che da nove anni non esce di casa; e Perrie, il ladro dagli occhi azzurri che le ruberà il cuore. Con lui Stargirl passerà notti intere a parlare della vita e dell'amore, condividendo i dubbi e le domande che la rendono così unica e speciale.

What is stargazer, skateboarder, chess champ, pepperoni pizza eater, older brother, sister hater, best friend, first kisser, science geek, control freak Will Tuppence so afraid of in this great big universe? Jerry Spinelli knows.

Now a seventh grader, Jason finds out the hard way just how different things are where ninth graders are the kings.

Jerry Spinelli’s novel Stargirl , published in 2000, became an instant bestseller, beloved for its nonconformist heroine with a heart of gold. With over 1.4 million copies in print in North America alone and licenses in 27 languages, it's gone on to become an international hit. The acclaimed companion novel, Love, Stargirl , was published in 2007 and quickly became a New York Times Bestseller. We're pleased to offer hardcover editions of both novels in this eye-popping new boxed set.

A celebration of nonconformity; a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity--and the thrill and inspiration of first love. Ages 12+ Leo Borlock follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School: don't stand out--under any circumstances! Then Stargirl arrives at Mica High and everything changes--for Leo and for the entire school. After 15 years of home schooling, Stargirl bursts into tenth grade in an explosion of color and a clatter of ukulele music, enchanting the Mica student body. But the delicate scales of popularity suddenly shift, and Stargirl is shunned for everything that makes her different. Somewhere in the midst of Stargirl's arrival and rise and fall, normal Leo Borlock has tumbled into love with her. In a celebration of nonconformity, Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity--and the thrill and inspiration of first love.

Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” She captures Leo Borlock’ s heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. At first. Then they turn on her. Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that makes her different, and Leo, panicked and desperate with love, urges her to become the very thing that can destroy her: normal. In this celebration of nonconformity, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the perils of popularity and the thrill and inspiration of first love. **Just announced: STARGIRL will be adapted for film by screenwriter Kristin Hahn and director Catherine Hardwicke.**

Mongoose, Brenda, Sonseray, and April have nothing in common...until a mysterious blue card appears as if by magic and begins to change each of their lives. None of them guesses it at first, but that strange blue card will be their ticket to the past--and to a future that they never imagined. In stories that range from humorous to heartbreaking, Newbery-award-winner Jerry Spinelli reveals the amazing possibilities lurking behind library doors.

From Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli (Maniac Magee, Stargirl) comes the "moving and memorable" (Kirkus Reviews, starred) story of a girl searching for happiness inside the walls of a prison. Cammie O'Reilly lives at the Hancock County Prison--not as a prisoner, she's the warden's daughter. She spends the mornings hanging out with shoplifters and reformed arsonists in the women's excercise yard, which gives Cammie a certain cache with her school friends.But even though Cammie's free to leave the prison, she's still stuck. And sad, and really mad. Her mother died saving her from harm when she was just a baby. You wouldn't think you could miss something you never had, but on the eve of her thirteenth birthday, the thing Cammie most wants is a mom. A prison might not be the best place to search for a mother, but Cammie is determined and she's willing to work with what she's got."Jerry Spinelli again proves why he's the king of storytellers" (Shelf Awarenss, starred) in this tale of a girl who learns that heroes can come in surprising disguises, and that even if we don't always get what we want, sometimes we really do get what we need."This book is never boring and never predictable. Fame, good and bad fortune, friendship and mental illness all make their way into [Cammie's] narrative."--The New York Times Book ReviewPraise for the works of Jerry "Spinelli is a poet of the prepubescent. . . . No writer guides his young characters, and his readers, past these pitfalls and challenges and toward their futures with more compassion." --The New York Times"It's almost unreal how much the children's book still resonates." --Bustle.com on Maniac Magee

Newbery Medal Honor Title (1998) Sometimes he wished it would come after him, chase him, this thing he did not want to be. But the thing never moved. It merely waited. Waited for him to come to it. In Palmer LaRue's hometown of Waymer, turning ten is the biggest event of a boy's life. It marks the day when a boy is ready to take his place as a wringer at the annual Family Fest. It's an honor and a tradition. But for Palmer, his tenth birthday is not something to look forward to, but something to dread. Because -- although he can't admit this to anyone -- Palmer does not want to be a wringer. But he can't stop himself from getting older, any more than he can stop tradition. Then one day, a visitor appears on his windowsill, and Palmer knows that this, more than anything else, is a sign that his time is up. Somehow, he must learn how to stop being afraid and stand up for what he believes in.

«Μας ξέφευγε συνεχώς. Ήταν το σήµερα. Ήταν το αύριο. Ήταν η ανεπαίσθητη µυρωδιά του κακτολούλουδου, η φευγαλέα σκιά µιας µικρής κουκουβάγιας. Δεν ξέραµε τι συµπέρασµα να βγάλουµε για κείνην. Προσπαθούσαµε να την καρφώσουµε σε κάποιον πίνακα από φελλό σαν πεταλούδα, αλλά πάντα η πινέζα µάς έφευγε, κι εκείνη την έπαιρνε ο αέρας». Η Στάργκερλ είναι µαγευτική σαν τον ουρανό της ερήµου. Παράξενη σαν τον αρουραίο της. Μυστηριώδης σαν το ίδιο το όνοµά της. Από τη µέρα που εµφανίζεται στο ήσυχο Λύκειο Μάικα µέσα σε µια έκρηξη χρωµάτων και ήχων, σε όλο το σχολείο ακούγεται ένα και µόνο µουρµουρητό: «Στάργκερλ, Στάργκερλ…». Κλέβει την καρδιά του Λίο µε ένα της µόνο χαµόγελο και βάζει φωτιά στο οµαδικό πνεύµα του σχολείου µε µία µόνο ζητωκραυγή. Οι µαθητές του Λυκείου Μάικα τη λατρεύουν. Στην αρχή… Το Λύκειο Μάικα –ΛΥΜΑ– δεν ήταν ακριβώς αυτό που θα έλεγε κανείς το λίκνο του αντικοµφορµισµού. Υπήρχαν βέβαια µεµονωµένες εξαιρέσεις εδώ κι εκεί, αλλά σε γενικές γραµµές φορούσαµε όλοι τα ίδια ρούχα, µιλούσαµε µε τον ίδιο τρόπο, τρώγαµε το ίδιο φαγητό και ακούγαµε την ίδια µουσική. Ακόµα και τα φυτά και οι σπασίκλες µας είχαν τη σφραγίδα του ΛΥΜΑ πάνω τους. Κι αν σε κάποια φάση τύχαινε να ξεχωρίσουµε µε κάποιον τρόπο από τους άλλους, βιαζόµασταν να επανέλθουµε το συντοµότερο, σαν λαστιχάκια. […] Θέλαµε να της δώσουµε έναν ορισµό, να την εντάξουµε κάπου, όπως κάναµε όλοι µεταξύ µας, αλλά δεν µπορούσαµε να ξεκολλήσουµε από το «ιδιόρρυθµη», «αλλόκοτη» και «άτσαλη». Η συµπεριφορά της µας αιφνιδίαζε συνεχώς. Μία µόνο λέξη φάνταζε πια να δεσπόζει στον ανέφελο ουρανό πάνω από το σχολείο: «Ε;». Ό,τι έκανε το έκανε λες και ήθελε να δικαιώσει τη Χίλλαρι Κιµπλ. Λες και δεν ήταν αληθινή…

היא היתה חמקמקה. היא היתה הניחוח הקלוש של פרח הקקטוס, הצללית המרפרפת של תנשמת. לא ידענו איך לאכול אותה. במחשבותינו ניסינו להצמיד אותה אל לוח השעם כמו פרפר, אך הסיכה פשוט עברה דרכה והיא עפה לה. כולם בבית הספר התיכון מיקה מוקסמים מילדת-כוכבים. בהתחלה. אך אז הם פונים כנגדה. וליאו, נואש מאהבה, מאיץ בה להפוך לדבר היחיד שיכול להרוס אותה: נורמלית. ילדת-כוכבים תר אחר שאלות של נאמנות האדם לחבריו ולעצמו ומניח לקוראים לגבש את תשובותיהם בעצמם.

يحتفي جيري سبينيللي الفائز بوسام نيوبيري بالاستقلالية فينسج خيوط قصة مؤثرة عن مخاطر الشعبية والإثارة والإلهام المرتبطين بالحب الأول. منذ وصولها إلى مدرسة ميكا الثانوية العليا وسط ضجة من الألوان والأصوات، واسم ستارجيرل يتردد همسًا في ردهات المدرسة. تستحوذ ستارجيرل على قلب ليو بابتسامة واحدة، وتشعل ثورة في الروح المدرسية بهتاف واحد فقط ويفتتن بها طلاب مدرسة ميكا... في بادئ الأمر. ثم انقلبوا عليها. فجأة تتعرض ستارجيرل للنبذ والإعراض لنفس الأسباب التي تجعلها مختلفة، ويحثها ليو الذي يحبها -وقد بلغ به الذعر واليأس مداه- على أن تصبح نفس الشيء الذي يمكن أن يدمرها: أن تتحول إلى إنسانة عادية.