Today Was a Terrible Day

Name: Today Was a Terrible Day
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
ISBN: 9781430128786

Author: Patricia Reilly Giff

Narrator: Larry Robinson

Unabridged: 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Live Oak Media

Published: 06/30/1995

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

In the course of one terrible day at school, second grader Ronald Morgan eats Jimmy's sandwich instead of his own, squirts water all over Joy Farley's dress by mistake, cannot remember how to do the workbook page, and loses the ball game for his team.

About Patricia Reilly Giff

Patricia Reilly Giff is the author of many beloved books for children, including the Kids of the Polk Street School books and the Polka Dot Private Eye books. Several of her novels for older readers have been chosen as ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Books and ALA-YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. She won the Newbery Honor for Lily's Crossing (a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book) and Pictures of Hollis Woods. She lives in Connecticut.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Prabhat on June 15, 2022

Today Was a Terrible Day (Ronald Morgan #1) by Patricia Reilly Giff, Illustrations -Susanna Natti- Hindi language translation by Vidushak- Children’s Illustrated Colour Picture Book- The book narrates one day activity in school of a child named Ronald Morgan. In school, pupils are divided in Houses......more

Goodreads review by Gloria on August 27, 2017

Ronald is having a rough day. Each event features Ronald experiencing embarrassment, bad luck, or defeat from peer and adult relationships at school. It all began with him dropping his pencil, which snowballs worse and worse. In the end, his teacher writes a note to him. After feeling success of bei......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl on April 28, 2025

4.5 stars -- This first of the Ronald Morgan series finds him having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day ala Alexander in Judith Viorst's 1972 publication. Ronald knocks a plant pot off the windowsill as the plant monitor. He drops a ball during a baseball game at recess and causes his team......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on August 27, 2018

Ronald Morgan had a very terrible day at school. He kept getting in trouble by Ms.Tyler and when he did all of his class mates would laugh at him. Everything that caused him to get in trouble wasn't done on purpose, but rather on accident. I feel that this story was told from a child's perspective w......more

Goodreads review by Peacegal on August 25, 2022

A second-grader has a crummy day in this realistic story. Everything seems to be going wrong for Ronald throughout his day at school, until a thoughtful note brightens his day at the book's conclusion. This is more likely to be a nostalgia read for adults, as several elements of the book are now dat......more