03081cam a2200505 i 4500 364767999 TxAuBib 20180101120000.0 151207s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015030871 9780374302610 0374302618 (OCoLC)928488991 TxAuBib rda Beasley, Kate. Gertie's Leap to Greatness / Kate Beasley ; illustrations by Jillian Tamaki. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [2016] ©2016. 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier A monstrosity of science -- You're in my seat -- Squish -- What's a Mary Sue Spivey -- Nope -- Upset about North Dakota -- With a G -- That superior smoothness -- No way you could be born on Krypton -- Who wants to go next? -- Well done, Gertie -- There's right and then there's right -- People are fickle -- Delilah -- Oh, junior -- A very good opportunity -- What happens to the junk food? -- I loathe peas -- A potato never quivers -- I won't tell -- It's at six -- How will I carry on? -- Ger-tie! Ger-tie! Ger-tie! -- Everybody messes up -- You stupid ham hock! -- More bath tissue -- I'm fatty and delicious -- Glory, Glory, Glory. "Gertie is a girl on a mission to be the best fifth grader ever in order to show her estranged mother that Gertie doesn't need her--not one bit!"-- Provided by publisher. 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. There's just one problem: Seat-stealing new girl Mary Sue Spivey wants to be the best fifth grader, too. And there is simply not enough room at the top for the two of them. From debut author Kate Beasley, and with illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Jillian Tamaki, comes a classic tale of hope and homecoming that will empty your heart, then fill it back up again--one laugh at a time. -- Provided by publisher. 20180101. Abandoned children Fiction. Abandoned children Juvenile fiction. Abandoned children. Mothers Fiction. Mothers Juvenile fiction. Mothers. Schools Fiction. Schools Juvenile fiction. Schools. 20160930 New List current. Humorous fiction. Fiction. Juvenile works. Tamaki, Jillian, 1980-, illustrator.