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Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry6/22/2023 ![]() Pidgeon provided, right smack in the middle of everything, and began doing second grade spelling. They had never met anyone like Gooney Bird Greene. ![]() The class stared at the new girl with admiration. I want a desk right smack in the middle of the room, because I like to be right smack in the middle of everything. My name is Gooney Bird Greene-that’s Greene with a silent ‘e’ at the end-and I just moved here from China. We’re in the middle of our spelling lesson. She was wearing pajamas and cowboy boots and was holding a dictionary and a lunch box. She opened the second grade classroom door at ten o’clock on a Wednesday morning and appeared there all alone, without even a mother to introduce her. She arrived in October, after the first month of school had already passed. There was a new student in the Watertower Elementary School. ![]() Title.įor Beanie and Chelsea, from their grandmas Summary: A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second-graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name. Gooney Bird Greene / Lois Lowry : illustrated by Middy Thomas. The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows: For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016. ![]() Illustrations by Middy Thomas Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyĪll rights reserved. ![]()
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