The Paris Project /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2019Copyright date: 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 277 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781534440869
- 1534440860
- 9781534440876
- 1534440879
- [Fic] 23
- PZ7.G293463 Par 2019
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Standard Loan | Coeur d'Alene Library Juvenile Fiction | Coeur d'Alene Library | Book | J GEPHART (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 05/01/2024 | 50610021816942 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Une histoire d'espoir--a story of hope." -- Kirkus Reviews
"A memorable, heartfelt read." -- Publishers Weekly
Fans of the Nate series by Tim Federle and The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer Holm will love Cleveland Rosebud Potts in this poignant and heartfelt novel from the award-winning author of Lily and Dunkin .
Cleveland Rosebud Potts has a plan. If she can check off the six items on her très important Paris Project List she will make it out of the small-minded and scorching town of Sassafras, Florida, to a rich and cultured life at The American School of Paris.
Unfortunately, everything seems to conspire against Cleveland reaching her goal.
Cleveland is ashamed of her father and angry that her mother and sister are never around because they have to work extra shifts to help out the family. Her Eiffel Tower tin has zero funds. And to top it all off, Cleveland's best friend Jenna Finch has decided she's too fancy for her and her neighbor Declan seems to be hiding something.
As Cleveland puts her talents to the test, she must learn how to forgive family for their faults, appreciate friends for exactly who they are, and bloom where she's planted--even if that's in a tiny town in central Florida that doesn't even have a French restaurant. C'èst la vie!
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276).
Cleveland Rosebud Potts yearns to leave Sassafras, Florida for a rich and cultured life at The American School of Paris, but problems with family, friends, and finances stand in her way.
Ages 8-12.
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Publishers Weekly Review
Seventh-grader Cleveland Rosebud Potts has a six-step plan to escape Sassafras, Fla., and Sunny Smiles Trailer Park, where everyone assumes that she must be a bad seed because her dad is in jail. Cleveland dreams of leaving town and attending the American School of Paris, but her immediate challenges are facing an ex-friend turned bully, navigating a shifting relationship with her best friend, and sorting through her confusing feelings about her father (no one knows that after her dad was caught stealing money from his boss to gamble at the dog track, he also stole Cleveland's dog-walking earnings). As the young woman navigates her feelings of shame, fear, and betrayal, Gephart (Lily and Dunkin) creates a winning character in her beret-clad, Francophile heroine. This authentic, ultimately hopeful story of forgiveness and empathy is a memorable, heartfelt read that centers the difficult, complicated reality of addiction, poverty, and bullying in small-town America. Ages 8--12. (Oct.)Booklist Review
Times have been hard for 12-year-old Cleveland and her family. Her father's in prison after stealing money at work. Though he also stole her savings, she's forgiven him, but it's hard to put up with gossip at school and in town. And when her sole friend, Dec, seems less interested in her because he wants to spend time with Todd, it's awkward, partly because Cleveland's dad stole from Todd's father's company, and also because she hadn't realized that Dec is gay. Cleveland dreams of leaving Sassafras, Florida, for Paris, France. Written in first person, the story creates a sympathetic main character and reveals her inner turmoil during a stressful period. Near the end, every painful area of her life seems to take a turn for the better, from her father returning home, finding a job, and attending Gamblers Anonymous meetings to Todd becoming a loyal friend. While all the loose ends are tied up neatly by the story's conclusion, perhaps a little too neatly to be entirely convincing, readers will wish this sympathetic narrator well.--Carolyn Phelan Copyright 2019 BooklistKirkus Book Review
A small-town Francophile dreams big in this story of economic hardships and parental incarceration.Cleveland Potts has one goal in life: move to Paris, France. Her plan consists of taking ballet lessons (for culture), cooking French cuisine, viewing impressionist art, then applying to the American School of Paris. She already studies French vocabulary with language CDs from the public library, and she's sure the other steps are within her reach. However, Sassafras, Florida, isn't a bastion of culture, and her first ballet class ends in disgrace. What's more, she recently lost all the money from her Paris fund (earned by walking dogs); her father took it after stealing from his boss to feed a gambling addiction. Now he's in jail, and Cleveland struggles to reconcile her anger for his transgression with how desperately she and the rest of the family want him home. She's also starting seventh grade with only one friend from her trailer park, an aspiring chef who's slowly coming out as gay. Gephart once again compassionately creates complex characters, including the members of Cleveland's presumed-white family, who are profoundly earnest in their collective and individual dreams. Readers won't "pity" Cleveland (she wouldn't want any), but they'll be rooting for her all the way. Includes a glossary of Cleveland's French phrases, a recipe, and notes on incarcerated parents.Une histoire d'espoira story of hope. (Fiction. 8-12) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Donna Gephart's first novel, As If Being 12-3/4 Isn't Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running For President! won the prestigious Sid Fleischman Humor Award. Her novel, How To Survive Middle School, received starred reviews from Kirkus and School Library Journal and Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen, about a girl determined to get on a TV quiz show sold to Random House.In addition to writing books for children, Donna has written for newspapers and magazines including: Family Circle Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Newspaper, Parenting, Highlights for Children, Scholastic's Storyworks Magazine and many others.
She's a featured speaker at elementary and middle schools, book festivals, libraries and conferences, including the S.C.B.W.I. National Conference, the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, the Conference on Children's Literature, and Bookmania.
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