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Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
Contributor(s): Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman (Author), Barton, Byron (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 0027824500 ISBN-13: 9780027824506
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

OUR PRICE: $15.29

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1980
* Out of Print *

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - New Experience

Dewey: E

LCCN: 80012264

Age Level: 5-8

Grade Level: Kindergarten-3

Lexile Measure: 560 AD (Adult Directed Text)

Physical Information: 0.33" H x 10.2" W x 8.21" L (0.83 lbs) 32 pages

Themes:
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.

Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 9769
Reading Level: 2.8 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
I live at 165 East 95th Street, and I'm going to stay here forever. says the young hero firmly. After all, out West nobody plays baseball because they're too busy chasing buffaloes, and you have to ride a horse to school even if you don't know how, and you can't sit down because of the cactus. But his parents are moving West, and they say he has to go, too.
Once there, however, the boy doesn't meet the Gila monsters he expected. And on the ride to his new home (by taxi, not horse) he discovers the West is neither as different nor as bad as he'd imagined.
Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and Byron Barton share a keen sense of the ridiculous and a compassionate understanding of a child's anxieties. Together they have created a perceptive, exuberantly funny picture book that will have children in all parts of the country laughing away their own fears about new experiences.

Contributor Bio(s): Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman: - Marjorie Weinman Sharmat has been called "a shining star as a storyteller" by Publishers Weekly. Her many popular books include I Don't Care and What Are We Going to Do About Andrew? for young children; Griselda's New Year, Mitchell Is Moving and Sophie and Gussie for beginning readers; and several novels for older children. After many years in New York State (one of them at 165 East 95th Street, New York City) she now lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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