Patricia Reilly Giff

When Lily meets Albert, a refugee from Hungary, during the summer of 1944, they begin a special friendship....

Sewing! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk....

Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by....

Hollis Woods has been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember them all. When Hollis is sent to Josie, she'll do everything in her power to make sure they stay together....

Meggie Dillon's life has been turned upside down by World War II....

The shock of icy water as a boat crashes onto rocks feels real; so does the castle high above him that is almost hidden in the mists....

A contemporary and irresistible story from Patricia Reilly Giff. Lidie lives in Jales, Brazil, where she’s free to ride, to be a wild girl, and to dream of going to live with her father and older brother, Rafael, in New York City. Finally Lidie is 12 - time to leave Brazil for New York....

This heart-wrenching novel in verse describes the life of a poor girl surviving the Irish Land War and the everyday challenges she experiences....

We will dance on the cliffs of Brooklyn. Maggie’s Door is the story of the journey from Ireland to America told by both Nory and her neighbor and friend Sean Red Mallon, two different stories with the same destination - the home of Nory’s sister, Maggie, in Brooklyn....

Brooklyn, 1875: Bird Mallon lives on Water Street, where you can see the huge towers of the bridge to Manhattan being built....

Number One Kid. That’s what Mitchell McCabe’s favorite T-shirt says...

In the fourth book in the Zigzag Kids series, it's showtime at the Zelda A. Zigzag Afternoon Center....

This week the kids at the Zizag Afternoon Center are being creative, and trying new things. But that's not so easy for Destiny. All of her ideas turn into disasters....

It's 1944. World War 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....

Rachel, Cassie, and Joey live in the city with their Pop, until Pop's search for work lands the family on a run down farm....

Discovery Week at the Zigzag Afternoon Center! Everyone writes their discoveries on a big sheet of paper in the hallway....

Mitchell really doesn't want to go camping with the other kids at the Zigzag Afternoon Center. Sleeping in the woods with creepy crawly things, coyotes, and bears? Yikes....

When Charlie hears that special buzz in his head, he knows it means one thing: An idea for a new invention. But Charlie's ideas tend to backfire - such as the flying feet that don't really fly. If only Charlie could make his inventions work....

Sirens! A scary sound, especially to Siria, whose brave Pop is a firefighter....

In Kidnap at the Catfish Café, Minnie's detective business is kind of slow - until one day a stray cat drops into her life, along with her first case....