Hobie Hanson, Greatest Hero of the Mall - Hardcover

Gilson, Jamie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688089682 ISBN 13: 9780688089689

Publisher: Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1989

Synopsis

When his town is devastated by a flood, Hobie's fifth grade class is forced to meet every day in the mall

About this title

About the Author:

Jamie Gilson has a firmly established reputation in the world of children's books as an entertaining and contemporary novelist. Among her popular Minstrel Books are her stories about Hobie Hanson: Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub (winner of five state awards); 4B Goes Wild; Hobie Hanson, You're Weird; Double Dog Dare; and Hobie Hanson, Greatest Hero of the Mall.

She has also written Can't Catch Me, I'm the Gingerbread Man; Dial Leroi Rupert; DJ; Do Bananas Chew Gum?; Harvey, the Beer Can King; and Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs. Harvey, the Beer Can King is the winner of a juvenile Book Merit Award from the Friends of American Writers, and Do Bananas Chew Gum? is the winner of the Carl Sandburg Award and the Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award in Arkansas.

A native of Beardstown, Illinois, Ms. Gilson grew up in small towns in Missouri and Illinois. Following graduation from Northwestern University, she taught junior high school and wrote for Chicago radio stations. Currently, Ms. Gilson lives with her husband, Jerry, and three children in Wilmette, Illinois, where she writes for Chicago magazine, lectures, and holds writing and poetry workshops in the Chicago area.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lothrop Lee & Shepard
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0688089682
• ISBN 13: 9780688089689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 149
• Illustrator: Riggio Anita