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Gooney Bird on the Map (Gooney Bird Greene #5)
Gooney Bird Greene returns for more adventures in this chapter-book series from two-time Newbery Medal–winner Lois Lowry. Mrs. Pidgeon’s second grade class has a lot to celebrate in February: presidents’ birthdays, Valentine’s Day, and school vacation. Of course, the students are talking about their awesome vacation plans every chance they get. It can be hard to focus on s...more
Hardcover, 128 pages
Published
November 15th 2011
by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
(first published November 14th 2011)
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The one-and-only Gooney Bird Greene is back with another idea! Gooney Bird is quite the individual. She is in second-grade and doesn't care what anyone else thinks about her wardrobe, her ideas or anything! She shows kids that it is okay to wear mismatched socks, to talk to the principal and to beat whatever you want for lunch. Her class is studying US geography right before February vacation time. There are three students in the class going to relatively exotic destinations and they can't help...more
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Gooney Bird on the Map by Lois Lowry
From the back of the book: Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class has a lot to celebrate in February: presidents' birthdays, Valentine's Day, and school vacation. Of course, some students are talking about their awesome vacation plans every chance they get. It can be hard to focus on subtraction problems when you're heading to Hawaii or Florida in seventeen minus seven days!
But...more
Gooney Bird on the Map by Lois Lowry
From the back of the book: Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class has a lot to celebrate in February: presidents' birthdays, Valentine's Day, and school vacation. Of course, some students are talking about their awesome vacation plans every chance they get. It can be hard to focus on subtraction problems when you're heading to Hawaii or Florida in seventeen minus seven days!
But...more
I figured this book was a sure bet: An easy reader written by the author of The Giver. But no. This book is sloppily written, sloppily edited (twice within 5 pages, a short paragraph was written at the bottom of one page and then again at the top of the next page), and un-funny. The main character is an annoying know-it-all who apparently runs her 2nd grade class ("I propose we do this, Mrs. Teacher," she says. "What a great idea! 2 week class project!" Mrs. Teacher replies - not a real quote, b...more
Second grader Gooney Bird Greene and her classmates in Mrs. Pidgeon's class are trying to get through February. When three classmates keep describing the exotic vacations planned for them while the others will be staying in town with nothing particularly exciting to do, the always creative Gooney Bird comes up with the idea of creating a map of the United States on the playground and plotting where everyone will be. They end up conducting an informative program for the other classes, and the cla...more
Gooney Bird on the Map is about a second grade class who is already for their vacation, Valentine’s day and President’s day. They all want to talk about their vacations, while the teacher tries to reel them back in and talk about subtraction. Gooney Bird always saves the day, and comes up with great ideas. To keep the students from talking about their vacations, she decides to make a map of the United States in the snow. All the students can see where they are going on vacation and it can relat...more
Let me start off by saying I love Gooney Bird Greene! She is one of my favorite characters that I suggest for my second grade students. This book, for me, falls far short of what I come to expect from a Lois Lowry book. I really wanted to really enjoy this book, but I didn't.
Also there were a few pages that had the same text at the bottom of one page and at the top of the next page.
Also there were a few pages that had the same text at the bottom of one page and at the top of the next page.
I wasn’t a big fan. I haven’t read other books with Gooney Bird in them, but I didn’t really care for her personality. I may be missing something from previous books, but I didn’t like how much attention Gooney Bird got from her teacher, principal, and classmates. I wasn’t sure why they put up with her crazy styles and antics. I felt like everybody catered to her somewhat outrageous demands and ideas. I didn’t think she was completely bossy and domineering, but I just got frustrated with some of...more
This addition to the Gooney Bird series just falls flat. The first book, Gooney Bird Greene, is pretty entertaining, but this book (5th in the series) doesn't have much going for it. If you are looking for a short chapter book series that is consistently good, try Graham Salisbury's Calvin Coconut books.
You have to love Gooney Bird and her flair, which comes across in all of the books in this series by Lois Lowry. Great classroom read aloud (especially 2nd grade), that may inspire some exciting projects. PK
I'm going to order the rest of this series for the elementary schools. Gooney Bird is sure to make you laugh.
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Cute character. A refreshing change from Junie B and the Magic Tree House books.
I love Gooney Bird!
Mildly entertaining.
Some of the other Gooney Bird books are better. This one focused on US geography and my kids enjoyed reading it. However, after reading Gooney Bird is Absurd (the 4th book on poetry) that was so good, this one was kind of a let down for me.
Gooney Bird is my favorite second grader and Mrs. Pidgeon gets the award for the most patient teacher! I have chuckled through all of Lois Lowry's interesting and inventive Gooney Bird Greene books. I so appreciate the way the kids show respect for each other and the adults in their lives.
Such an imaginative story. Great school story and some character education about gloating!
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Taken from Lowry's website:
"I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad; together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets; and later, when Jon was older, they always...more
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"I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad; together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets; and later, when Jon was older, they always...more
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