Storyteller - patricia reilly giff

PATRICIA REILLY GIFF is the author of many beloved books for children, including the Kids of the Polk Street School books, the Friends and Amigos books, and the Polka Dot Private Eye books.

Several of her novels for older 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 Ryans Song, a Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Honor Book for Fiction; and the Newbery Honor Books Lilys Crossing and Pictures of Hollis Woods .

Lilys Crossing was also chosen as a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book.

Her most recent books are Number One Kid, Big Whopper, Flying Feet, Eleven, and Wild Girl .