Gib Rides Home

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Book Overview

Gib Whittaker's life at Lovell House Orphanage in the early 1900s is pretty bleak. His fondest dream is to belong to a real family. Even when he finds out that most "adoptions" really mean being... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385322674
• ISBN13: 9780385322676
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

"Gib Rides Home"

Gibson Whittaker became an orphan at Lovell House, but someone adopted him and he thought he got "farmed out," so Gib tried to make the best of were he lived, then he made friends with Livy Thornton and her family, that adopted him. I agree with the way the author wrote this book because I like the way shewas descriptive and she told what Gib thought and what new his family thought. She made the book grab my attention! I would recemend my book to people that like tragic stories and happy endings because there is a lot of that in this book! Take my word for it, it is really good!

Another fine Snyder book

I suppose I should first say that I've been a fan of Zilpha Keatley Snyder's for many years. I'm so pleased to see that this book holds up to her The Velvet Room and The Egypt Game, to name just a few.I hope CT elementary school students voting for the Nutmeg award give this book a chance, even though the length may be a bit much for some of the younger voters. Gib is a wonderful character: brave, forthright, sweet, caring, and generous. We are told just enough about his life in the orphanage for our hearts to be touched and to yearn with Gib that he will find a home. And we shudder and even tear up a bit when he loses the home he finds and winds up back at the orphanage. But between those events, we cheer for him, we come to love Hy, Hoop, Mrs. Thornton, and even Olivia, and we vicariously enjoy Gib's invigorating rides on the range and the good times he has on the Thorton ranch. Snyder makes her characters and their times come alive. And she feeds us just the right amounts of information in the teasing mystery of why the Thorntons first left him in the orphanage and then, so many years later, came to get him. It certainly made me want to keep reading! (In fact, when I thought I'd lost the book, I was quite upset at the thought that it was going to take me days or weeks to find out Gib's whole story!) There's a sequel to this book, and I certainly intend to read it.

This book is a great one because Gib finds himself.

This book isn't, sci fi, or a fairy tale, it has no blood and guts. But it does have a little boy who is an orphan, and wants a family. This book is a very good book, I think with great character devlopment. It almost felt like you were him and I could actually sense how he was feeling. I really enjoyed this book and would recomend this to anybody who enjoys reading.

A Great Read!

Wow! A great book. It really keeps you on the edge of your seat! Great for horse lovers like me:) I like how realistic it is. I strongly recommend this book to anybody! (Even my mum liked it!)

This was a really good book!

Gib Rides Home was a really good book. The beginning was a little boring, but it got a lot better and the end was really great. Gib lived in an orphanage, but he was farmed out and found the family of his dreams. He got taken back to the orphanage because of a small incident that wasn't really his fault, but in the end Miss Hooper and Hy brought him back to where he belonged. You should definately read this book.