This morning I finished reading Roxie and the hooligans by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. It’s a fast paced adventure story with a plucky and resourceful heroine, and a whimsically illustrated beginning chapter book. It’s also on the Texas Bluebonnet Award 2007-2008 Master List, a list sponsored by the Texas Library Association “to encourage free voluntary reading.”
Roxie and the hooligans / by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor ; with illustrations by Alexandra Boiger.--
Description: 115 p. ; ill. : 22 cm.
ISBN: 9781416902430
Subjects:
Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
Bullying in schools -- Fiction.
Resourcefulness -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Annotation:
Roxie Warbler wishes she could be as brave as her uncle. He accompanies the famous Lord Thistlebottom, author of Lord Thistlebottom's Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them, on his adventures in the wild. Roxie just wants to survive the hooligans of Public School Thirty-Seven, who torment her because of her “wonderful, round, pink, handles-on-a-sugar bowl ears” that stick straight out from her head. She knows Lord Thistlebottom’s advise for confronting wild beasts, and what to do if you’re caught in an avalanche, but she’s not sure there’s anything in his book about dealing with school bullies.
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