Gooney Bird is So Absurd
- Publisher : HarperCollins
- Publishing year : December 2023
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780063346925
- Imprint : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Age Group : Early Reader
- Language : English
“Few beginning chapter books have the range of this one, from hilarity to sadness, from outrage to compassion, an ...
“Few beginning chapter books have the range of this one, from hilarity to sadness, from outrage to compassion, and few writers could manage it with such finesse.” —Booklist
It’s a cold January at Watertower Elementary School—the ideal weather for second grader Gooney Bird Greene to break out her brain-warming hat. Mrs. Pidgeon is teaching poetry—from haiku to limericks. So when tragedy befalls their teacher, her students are prepared to write the most important poem they’ve ever written.
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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