Running Away
By (Author) Donna Jo Napoli
10
Simon & Schuster
Aladdin
5th December 2000
United States
Children
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
96
Width 127mm, Height 203mm, Spine 5mm
96g
A serious job for a little angel The Little Angel of Responsibility has a hard time finishing what she starts. Shes been working on the same knitting project for weeks. But something more interesting always seems to come up. This time, its helping a little girl with a big problem. Danielle is old enough to take care of herself. So when her mother starts working again, she leaves a lot of responsibility in Danielles hands -- like making sure to get her homework done on time. But when the choice is left up to Danielle, shed rather practice running for the track team than do schoolwork. Is the Little Angel of Responsibility ready to lend a hand Be responsible!
Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels, both fantasies and contemporary stories. She won the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water in 1997. Her novel Zel was named an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon, and a School Library Journal Best Book, and a number of her novels have been selected as ALA Best Books. She is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband. Visit her at DonnaJoNapoli.com.