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Hazel Green Hardcover – April 30, 2003
Each year, on Frogg Day, a parade fills the streets and children are not allowed to take part,but it hasn't always been that way and it certainly doesn't seem fair to Hazel Green. So she decides to rally the children of the Moody Building to build a float for the parade. But things go awry when she is accused of stealing a recipe from her favorite baker and giving it to his rival. At the same time, the children ban her from participating in the parade because she tried to convince them that their float would topple. But with the help of her friend Yakov, a.k.a. "The Yak," Hazel proves her innocence and leads the children to glory on Frogg Day. From Odo Hirsch, an internationally best-selling author, and in the spirit of Harriet the Spy and Anastasia Krupnik, comes this spunky, unforgettable, irresistible character: Hazel Green. "Sometimes you really are terrible, Hazel." Good, thought Hazel Green. Everyone should be terrible sometimes.
- Reading age8 - 12 years
- Print length190 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level4 - 6
- Dimensions5.34 x 0.9 x 8.16 inches
- PublisherBloomsbury USA Children's Books
- Publication dateApril 30, 2003
- ISBN-101582348200
- ISBN-13978-1582348209
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About the Author
Odo Hirsch grew up in Melbourne, Australia, where he trained to be a doctor. He now lives in London, where he spends his time writing children's books. He is the author of Bartlett and the Ice Voyage, winner of the Blue Peter Award in the UK and a Junior Library Guild Selection.
Product details
- Publisher : Bloomsbury USA Children's Books; 0 edition (April 30, 2003)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 190 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1582348200
- ISBN-13 : 978-1582348209
- Reading age : 8 - 12 years
- Grade level : 4 - 6
- Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.34 x 0.9 x 8.16 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,239,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #52,866 in Children's Holiday Books (Books)
- #136,538 in Children's Literature (Books)
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- Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2016I absolutely enjoyed this book...It was one of those books that when you are done reading it .....you feel compelled to just sit and hold it after!! A very sweet story...
- Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2004When I was about nine or ten, I loved the Hazel Green series and basically grew up on Odo Hirsch stories. Now I am still in love with the books and note my pen-name: Hazel Green has got to be my favourite literary character.
"Hazel Green" follows the adventures of a girl(Hazel) in her urban environment around her. The characters are true and believable, and the most enjoyable things about this book and the others in the series is the way that they describe the ordinary life of normal people in the neighbourhood - but it hooks you. It is delightful to learn how the local florist arranges her flowers, how the fish shop owner obtains his fish, and you lick your lips at all the amazing delicacies on sale at the bakery.
The reader is put into the the shoes of someone in Hazel's vicinity, who is delightful company with her charismatic and childish but frank and true personality that reflects exactly what it feels like to be a child.
THe other thing that Odo Hirsch has managed to do is make a sort of soap-opera about the kids and shop-owners in the neighbourhood of the Moody building and other places in the urban setting. He manages to make the completely normal problems in life interesting as Hazel, inquisitively, tries to solve the problems and mysteries of her neighbourhood.