Gooney Bird Greene
- Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publishing year : December 2023
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780063346901
- Imprint : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Age Group : Early Reader
- Language : English
“Lowry displays a keen understanding of how second-grade classrooms operate.”—Horn Book From the mom ...
“Lowry displays a keen understanding of how second-grade classrooms operate.”—Horn Book
From the moment Gooney Bird Greene arrives at Watertower Elementary School, her fellow second-graders are intrigued by her unique sense of style and her unusual lunches. So when story time arrives, the choice is unanimous: they want to hear about Gooney Bird Greene. And that suits Gooney Bird just fine, because, as it turns out, she has quite a few interesting and "absolutely true" stories to tell.
LOIS LOWRY, author of over thirty novels and twice winner of the Newbery Medal for The Giver and Number the Stars,was born on the 20th of March 1937 in Hawaii. Her father was an Army dentist and the family lived all over the world. She went to Brown University, but left to get married and a raise a family. She settled in Maine, and returned to college receiving a degree from the University of Southern Maine. She fulfilled a childhood dream when she started writing in the 1970s.
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