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    Gooney Bird Is So Absurd
    Gooney Bird Is So Absurd
    Gooney Bird Is So Absurd
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    Gooney Bird Is So Absurd

    By Lois Lowry and Middy Thomas

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    The fourth hilarious title in Lowis Lowry's popular Gooney Bird series!

    It’s a cold January at the Watertower Elementary School—the perfect weather for Gooney Bird Greene to break out her special brain-warming hat! It's a good thing she has one. Gooney Bird's brain will need to be as warm as possible this month, because Mrs. Pidgeon is teaching her class about poetry. Who knew there could be so many different ways to write a poem? Haikus, couplets, limericks—Mrs. Pidgeon’s students soon find that writing good poetry takes a lot of hard work and creative thinking. Gooney Bird and her classmates are up to the challenge. But just when things are going well, the kids get some terrible news. Gooney Bird will need all the inspiration her brain can muster to organize the most important poem the class has ever written.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 23, 2009
    ISBN9780547348537
    Gooney Bird Is So Absurd
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    Lois Lowry

    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 of four children. 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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      Gooney Bird Is So Absurd - Lois Lowry

      Copyright © 2009 by Lois Lowry

      Illustrations copyright © 2009 by Middy Thomas

      All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.

      www.hmhco.com

      The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

      Lowry, Lois.

      Gooney Bird is so absurd / by Lois Lowry.

      p. cm.

      Summary: Mrs. Pidgeon’s second-grade class studies poetry and her students write haiku, couplets, free verse, and finally, a tribute to Mrs. Pidgeon’s mother organized by the irrepressible Gooney Bird Greene.

      [1. Poetry—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.

      PZ7.L9673Goi 2002

      [Fic]—dc22

      2007047738

      ISBN 978-0-547-11967-0 hardcover

      ISBN 978-0-547-87559-0 paperback

      eISBN 978-0-547-34853-7

      v3.0415

      For Emilia Jansson

      1.

      Mr. Leroy’s voice crackled through the intercom speaker after a fifth-grader named Henry Newmeyer had led the entire school in the Pledge of Allegiance.

      This is your principal, Mr. Leroy, he said, and Mrs. Pidgeon’s second-graders all laughed. They knew he was their principal. He didn’t need to tell them. It wasn’t like the day in October when Gooney Bird Greene had appeared in their classroom for the first time and said, I’m your new student. She’d needed to explain that, because nobody had had a clue who she was, and she had arrived wearing pajamas and cowboy boots, which made her somewhat mysterious.

      But everyone already knew who Mr. Leroy was. He was Watertower Elementary’s principal and he was the best principal, the children thought, in the whole world. He was smart and funny and he wore the most interesting neckties, except for the blue striped one. He had explained that his wife’s mother had given him the blue striped one for his birthday, so he felt that he had to wear it now and then. He really thought it was a boring necktie, but if they ever met his mother-in-law they should not tell her that he thought that.

      I just want to alert you all to the weather forecast, Mr. Leroy’s voice continued through the intercom. "I guess we shouldn’t be surprised, since it is January, but the prediction is for snow tomorrow.

      Walkers? Be sure to wear warm boots and mittens, he said.

      That’s me, Ben announced from his desk. I’m a walker! I’m wearing my L.L.Bean boots tomorrow!

      Me, too, Nicholas chimed in. I’m a walker, too.

      And bus people? Mr. Leroy went on.

      Me, Keiko said in her very quiet voice.

      And me, Chelsea announced. I get on Bus Eleven at the corner of Cherry Street.

      Be sure to be extra well behaved on the bus, Mr. Leroy reminded them, because the driving might be difficult in the snow. We want all of our drivers to pay careful attention to the slippery roads, not to children who might be noisy or wiggly.

      That’s you, Malcolm! someone called out. Malcolm grinned. It was true; he did have trouble sitting still. He was wiggling back and forth in his seat at this very moment.

      Of course, Mr. Leroy continued, "if there is a lot of snow, you know what that means!"

      Snow day! the children all called out.

      Snow day! OKAY! Tyrone shouted.

      Snow day, Mr. Leroy said, like an echo, even though he couldn’t hear Mrs. Pidgeon’s classroom from his office. "But let’s hope not. We all have lots of schoolwork to get done, don’t we?

      Now, he added, some of you have noticed that I’m wearing my reptile tie this morning.

      Mrs. Pidgeon laughed. Yes, he is, she said. I saw it when I was having coffee in the teachers’ lounge. It gives me the creeps.

      I love that one, Beanie said. It has iguanas and everything!

      Komodo dragons! Barry added.

      Oh, gross, murmured Keiko, who hated anything that might possibly be slimy.

      Shhh, Mrs. Pidgeon said, still laughing. She pointed to

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