Gertie's Leap to Greatness #1

Gertie's Leap to Greatness — Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Issue: #1

Won in a major six-house auction, this hilarious and heartfelt middle-grade debut features a girl on a mission to be the best fifth grader ever. Gertie Reece Foy is 100% Not-From-Concentrate awesome. She has a daddy who works on an oil rig, a great-aunt who always finds the lowest prices at the Piggly Wiggly, and two loyal best friends. So when her absent mother decides to move away from their sma...

First appearances: Gertie Reece Foy, Mary Sue Spivey

Creators: Jillian Tamaki, Kate Beasley

Characters: Gertie Reece Foy, Mary Sue Spivey