Talk:Patricia Reilly Giff

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this was not taken from those websites, i cannot help it if it is very very very similar. all information is factual information that can be found many many places but delete it if you must

Very, very, very similar?? Give me a break, that text was verbatim. -- Notheruser 01:46 Apr 18, 2003 (UTC)

No doubt about the source of the text. I've extracted the facts and re-posted. Patricia is probably a long-lost cousin. Tiles

[edit] Copied from a website

The following section is obviously taken from a website:

Giff (Lily s Crossing; All the Way Home) again introduces a carefully delineated and sympathetic heroine in this quiet contemporary novel. Artistically talented Hollis Woods, age 12, has made a habit of running away from foster homes, but she s found a place on Long Island where she wants to stay for a while. She immediately bonds with Josie, her new guardian, who is a slightly eccentric, retired art teacher. Yet Hollis is far from content. She worries about Josie s increasing forgetfulness, and she sorely misses her last foster family, the Regans, whom she left under tense circumstances that are only gradually made clear. Giff intersperses tender scenes demonstrating Hollis s growing affection for Josie with memories of the Regans, whose images Hollis preserves in her sketchbook. Pictures of motherly Izzy Regan, her architect husband and their mischievous yet compassionate son, Steven, sensitively express the young artist s conception of a perfect family. As readers become intimately acquainted with Hollis, they will come to understand her fears, regrets and longings, and will root for her as she pursues her dream of finding a home where she belongs. Ages 8-13. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

This is copyrighting. It even has a copyright on the bottom. Come one guys, this is illegal! I am going to delete the parts that are in bold unless someone objects. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.227.158.43 (talk) 13:36, 22 December 2006 (UTC).