Gertie's Leap to Greatness
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Average rating3.5
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Ratings2
Average rating3.5
Gertie Reece Foy is 100% Not-From-Concentrate awesome. She has a daddy who works on an oil rig, a great-aunt who always finds the lowest prices at the Piggly Wiggly, and two loyal best friends. So when her absent mother decides to move away from their small town, Gertie sets out on her greatest mission yet: becoming the best fifth grader in the universe to show her mother exactly what she'll be leaving behind.
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Gertie wants to become the greatest fifth grader in the universe. And she's got a plan to obtain greatness. She's got the support of two wonderful friends to get her there. Until that seat-stealing new girl, Mary Lou, comes to town....
Sometimes, in children's books, you see main characters who have had all their rough edges smoothed out by their authors in order to increase their like-ability. None of the main characters in this book have had their rough edges smoothed out but all of them (yes, even that seat-stealing Mary Lou) are wonderfully likable.
An adorable Southern pecan pie of a book. Absolutely delicious. I gobbled it up.
