- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Sandpiper; Reprint edition (Mar 9 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0547549555
- ISBN-13: 978-0547549552
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13.5 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Gr. 5^-8. When his grandmother suddenly dies, 13-year-old Gordy and his younger sister must move from Grandville back to College Hill to live with their older brother's family. Under his grandmother's steady influence, Gordy had turned his life around, but he soon finds trouble in his old town. Friends egg him into a number of scrapes yet quickly abandon and even betray him. Attracted to his old friend Elizabeth, Gordy wants desperately to impress her but sabotages himself at every turn. Caught in a downward spiral, Gordy seems destined for reform school until his family and Elizabeth reveal how much they care for him. The post^-World War II setting is merely cosmetic, but Gordy is a painfully believable adolescent, angry with the very people who love him and trapped by the town's knee-jerk judgment of his family. A worthy sequel to Stepping on Cracks (1991) and Following My Own Footsteps (1996), but this also stands well on its own. Linda Perkins
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An eighth grader finds that his tough-guy persona doesn't fit as well as it used to in Hahn's third book about the fragmented Smith family (Stepping On The Cracks, 1991; Following My Own Footsteps, 1996). After his grandmother's sudden death, Gordy has to move back to the hated Maryland town in which he grew up. Discovering that the intervening two years have done little to dim his family's white-trash reputation, and that his ne'er-do-well friends, Doug and Toad, haven't changed, Gordy slips back into his old troublemaking ways. The role begins to chafe, however, when he develops a yen for old rival LizLizzy the LizardCrawford, and learns that his abusive father and reform-school- graduate older brother aren't the best role models when it comes to human relations. Hahn expertly shows how the expectations of others influence Gordy's behavior, as he struggles to step away from his bad old self; in the end he takes that step, though not without a realistic amount of backsliding. To Gordy's surprise and pleasure, Elizabeth is willing to meet him half way. While Gordy's anger is the dominant feeling here, flashes of humor and deftly inserted historical details of the postWW II era lighten the load. (Fiction. 10-13) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
As Ever, Gordy,
By A Customer
This review is from: As Ever Gordy (Paperback)
Do you like comedy and realistic stories? If so, Mrs. Hahn has the book for you. Mrs. Hahn pays exquisite attention to the smallest details. In this book, Gordy's grandmother, with whom he lives, dies, sending him to live with his brother Stewart. He lives with Stewart in the town that he used to live in, before he moved in with his grandmother. This book is the exciting and amazing story of him reengaging friendship with old friends, and establishing a life in his old town, College Hill. Read this book, to see what will happen to Gordy in this wonderful tale from Mary Downing Hahn. I would strongly recommend this book to any one who wants a good humored, and well written book to read.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The vest book ever created,
By jinndtonic (NH, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: As Ever, Gordy (Hardcover)
this book is the best. to fully enjoy this book u have to read the first 2 books. Mary Downing Hahn is a talented auther and puts twists into her writing
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Rough Times,
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This review is from: As Ever, Gordy (Hardcover)
The Book "As Ever Gordy" by Mary Downing Hahn is a great book. I really enjoyed it. This book is about a boy named Gordy going through rough times. His grandmother has just past away and he has to go back to College Hill to live with one of his older brothers. Meanwhile he is trying to impress a girl named Elizabeth Crawford (A.K.A Lizard) , but every time he tries to impress her something goes wrong. This book is about alot of things tough times, friendship, family, and friends. This is a very funny but sad book. I recamend this book to everyone.
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