Patricia Reilly Giff
Author · 110 books
Patricia Reilly Giff was 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 Ryan's Song, a Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Honor Book for Fiction; and the Newbery Honor Books Lily's Crossing and Pictures of Hollis Woods. Lily's Crossing was also chosen as a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book.
Series
Books
Maggie's Door
2003
Mother Teresa
Sister to the Poor
1986
Lily's Crossing
1997
Emily Arrow Promises to Do Better This Year
1990
Meet the Crew at the Zoo
2020
Until I Find Julian
2015
Nory Ryan's Song
2000
Hunter Moran Saves the Universe
2012
Island War
2018
Big Whopper
2010
The Beast and the Halloween Horror
1990
Genevieve's War
2017
The Riddle of the Red Purse
1987
Starring Rosie
1997
Writing with Rosie
You Can Write a Story Too
2016
Storyteller
2010
The Gift of the Pirate Queen
1982
Don't Tell the Girls
2005
Love, From the Fifth Grade Celebrity
1986
A Glass Slipper for Rosie
1997
The Secret at the Polk Street School
1987
Wild Girl
2009
Have You Seen Hyacinth Macaw?
1981
Matthew Jackson Meets the Wall
1990
Snaggle Doodles
1982
A House of Tailors
2004
Fish Face
1984
Say Cheese
1982
Rosie's Big City Ballet
1998
All About Stacy
1988
Mary Moon is Missing
1998
In the Dinosaur's Paw
1982
Left-Handed Shortstop
1980
Green Thumbs Everyone
1996
Happy Birthday, Ronald Morgan!
1986
Water Street
2006
The Powder Puff Puzzle
1987
Next Stop, New York City!
1997
Let's Go, Philadelphia!
1998
The Almost Awful Play
1984
Pictures of Hollis Woods
2002
Lazy Lions, Lucky Lambs
1985
Stacy Says Goodbye
1989
The Candy Corn Contest
1982
Watch Out! Man-Eating Snake!
1988
Good Luck, Ronald Morgan!
1996
The Mystery of the Blue Ring
1987
Turkey Trouble
1994
Zigzag Zoom
2013
Spectacular Stone Soup
1988
Fancy Feet
1988
Number One Kid
2010
Star Time
2011
Watch Out, Ronald Morgan!
1985
The Case of the Cool-Itch Kid
1989
Poopsie Pomeranz, Pick Up Your Feet
1989
The Winter Worm Business
1981
Hunter Moran Hangs Out
2013
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Growing Up in the Little House
1987
Garbage Juice for Breakfast
1989
The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room
1984
Sunnyside Up
1986
Jubilee
2016
Animal at Large
2020
Sky High
2012
Rat Teeth
1984
Pickle Puss
1986
Monster Rabbit Runs Amuck
1991
Loretta P. Sweeny, Where Are You?
1983
Dance with Rosie
1996
I Love Saturday
1989
Today Was a Terrible Day
1980
The Clue at the Zoo
1990
Gingersnap
2013
Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat
1988
Count Your Money with the Polk Street School
1994
The Sneaky Snow Fox
2012
Not-So-Perfect Rosie
1997
The Trail of the Screaming Teenager
1990
Shark in School
1994
Ronald Morgan Goes to Camp
1995
Hunter Moran Digs Deep
2014
The Postcard Pest
1994
Patti Cake and Her New Doll
2014
The Valentine Star
1982
Look Out, Washington D.C.
1995
Oh Boy, Boston!
1997
Wake Up, Emily, It's Mother's Day
1991
All the Way Home
2001
Zebra at the Zoo
2021
The Big Something
2012
Flying Feet
2011
The Girl Who Knew it All
1979
Super Surprise
2012
December Secrets
1982
Winter Sky
2014
A Slip of a Girl
2019
Kidnap at the Catfish Cafe
1998
Rosie's Nutcracker Dreams
1996
Willow Run
2005
Pet Parade
1996
B-E-S-T Friends
1988
The Garden Monster
2013
Next Year I'll Be Special
1980
Bears Beware
2012
Eleven
2008
Tootsie Tanner, Why Don't You Talk?
1987
Purple Climbing Days
1985
Fourth Grade Celebrity
1977
R My Name Is Rachel
2000
