Gabriela

Format:

Book

Title:

Gabriela

Author:

Harris, Teresa E. author

ISBN:

9781338136982

9780606399869

9781338137736

9781536400557

9781518235634

9781338148817

9781518185434

Publication:

New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., [2017]

Physical Description:

196 pages ; 20 cm

Series title(s):

American girls collection.

Girl of the year.

Number in series:

BK. 1.

Summary:

"Gabby loves expressing herself--especially in the dance studio--but lately, poetry is becoming her art form of choice, and for good reason: Gabby struggles with stuttering, and spoken word poetry helps her speech flow more freely. still, compared to how confident she feels on the dance floor, speaking up can be scary. When the city threatens to close her beloved community arts center, Gabby is determined to find a way to help. Can she harness the power of her words and rally her community to save Liberty Arts?"--Page 4 of cover.

Reading Level:

8+.

Subject(s):

Stuttering -- Juvenile fiction.

Community centers -- Juvenile fiction.

Poetry -- Juvenile fiction.

Dancers -- Juvenile fiction.

African American girls -- Fiction.

Dancers -- Fiction.

Performance poetry -- Fiction.

Genre:

Holds:

Available:*

Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Salem Main Library	J American	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Mount Angel Public Library	+AMERICAN Gabriela	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Stayton Public Library	JF AMERICAN GIRL	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

Meet Gabriela McBride, American Girl's 2017 Girl of the Year! She's a true talent who gets creative for a cause.Get to know American Girl's 2017 Girl of the Year, Gabriela, in this first book in her series! Gabby loves expressing herself--especially in the dance studio--but lately, poetry is becoming her art form of choice, and for good reason: Gabby struggles with stuttering, and spoken word poetry helps her speech flow more freely. Still, compared to how confident she feels on the dance floor, speaking up can be scary. When the city threatens to close her beloved community arts center, Gabby is determined to find a way to help. Can she harness the power of her words and rally her community to save Liberty Arts?

Author Notes

Teresa E. Harris earned her bachelor's degree in English from Columbia University and an MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College, where she won numerous awards, including the Flying Pig Grade-A, Number-One Ham Humor Award. She is the author of the picture book Summer Jackson: Grown Up and the middle grade novel The Perfect Place , which was selected as one of Bank Street's Best Children's Books of the Year in 2015. Teresa is a high school English teacher in New Jersey, where she lives with three very bossy cats.