Pictures of Hollis Woods

Author: Patricia Reilly Giff

Genre: Childhood

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 7.5

Type: Fiction

Number of pages: About 160

Time period: Present

My overall opinion: Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it. That about sums it up. It’s about a foster child, and a few of the homes that she lives in.

Water Street

Author: Patricia Reilly Giff

Genre: Life

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 8

Type: Fiction

Number of pages: 164

Time period: 1800’s (1875, to be exact)

My overall opinion: This book is for older grade-school kids. It’s about (in part) the building of Brooklyn Bridge through the eyes of two different children. Clean and interesting. J