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Item Id: 20090414A

 
Title: Once in a Blue Moon
Author: Molly Levite Griffis
Description:"In a pig's eye!" Joe Watson's best friend Paul responds when Joe finally breaks down and confesses he is afraid something is going haywire in his beloved grandfather's brain.
In a pig's eye and going haywire are two of the dozens of funny country sayings Judge Benjamin Franklin Bennington, Joe's grandfather, has taught the boys over the years. Old saws, the judge called them, because they cut straight to the truth without going around Robin Hood's barn, which of course means going the long away around. "Old saws hold the truth like a cup holds water, and the truth will always out," he tells Joe and Jim Paul often.
And Joe and Jim Paul, certified George Washington School Truth Tellers, believe him...until the judge begins to forget the words as well as the wisdom of his old saws. Then the truth begins to unravel like a sweater caught on barbwire, and the boys discover that the lies they tell themselves are the hardest lies of all to swallow.

 
Reviews:“Griffis begins The Rachel Resistance on “a date that will live in infamy.”  With humor and insight she richly documents America at the time of Pearl Harbor.  Young readers will be entertained.  Older readers will sigh and say, ‘Ah, yes, that is how it was.’”

                                                Earl Hamner, creator of The Waltons

 

  “Like Harriet the Spy and Hermione Granger, Rachel Dalton (heroine of The Rachel Resistance) is resourceful, imaginative, smart, and dedicated.  Convinced there are traitors and spies in her hometown, she sets out to unmask them in a story that ends with a surprise and a tug at the heart.”

                                                Billie Letts, author of Where the Heart Is 

                                                                                                                                                                              

“Griffis expertly captures this period of American history through the innocent eyes of a begrudgingly sensitive boy.  Short chapters, colorful minor characters, and plenty of historical detail make this (The Feester Filibuster) a fast and fulfilling read.”

                                                Booklist

                                                                                                              

“The Feester Filibuster, the buoyant sequel to The Rachel Resistance allows John Allen Feester to tell his side of the story, which he claims Rachel botched in the first book.  It is a compelling book, filled with humor, emotion and well-drawn characters.”

                                                School Library Journal

 

Simon Says, sequel to The Rachel Resistance and The Feester Filibuster, continues Molly Griffis’ heart-tugging, history-packed World War II story....The suspense over the fate of Simon’s family in Europe make readers ache for a happy ending, even as they question if the horrifying world conflict can let it be so.”

                                                Booklist

 

“Simon Says is a moving story with characters that brought the injustice of persecution into the kid’s world.  For the characters to see the evil in themselves was brilliant.  I hope everyone reads it.”

                                                Jean George, Newbery winner

 

“The Great American Bunion Derby is a grabber.  It’s a page turner.  I ran every suspenseful and grueling mile with Andy Payne as he proved a ‘runner’s heart’ can overcome all obstacles.  I didn’t want it to end.”

                                                Dennis Weaver, actor

 

“What a moving story Simon Says is!  Griffis did such a wonderful job creating characters that brought the injustice of persecution into the kids world  For the characters to see the evil in themselves was brilliant.  I hope everybody reads it.”                                                                                           

 
About the Author:Molly Levite Griffis is an inveterate letter writer. Not those boring one-size-fits-all E-mail things, but real letters transported by snails. Like the heroine of Five Two, Five Blue (She is, in fact, that little girl grown up), Molly grew up in the small Oklahoma town of Apache in a soft and gentle time. Reluctantly, Molly abandoned her lead pencil and Big Chief tablet and adapted to a typewriter. But the same technological advances which took away the Central telephone operator and gave us rapid dial, have eliminated production of typewriter ribbons. She is down to her last three. Luckily, she is a founding member of The Lead Pencil Club. So when the ribbons run out, she'll happily go back to her Big Chief tablet and pencil.
Molly is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and lives in Norman, Oklahoma. She has two grown children, a red-haired daughter, who was the inspiration for Rachel, and a son who lives in the Czech Republic.

 
Details:2009 [ISBN: 1-58107-154-X; 136 pages; 5 ½ x 8 ½ inch; soft cover]

 

 

 

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