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Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
Contributor(s): Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman (Author), Barton, Byron (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0689713835     ISBN-13: 9780689713835
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
OUR PRICE:   $8.09  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 1990
Qty:
Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Annotation: A young boy who must move from New York out West really believes that "Gila monsters meet you at the airport". Three-color illustrations.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - New Experience
- Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
Dewey: E
LCCN: 89038398
Lexile Measure: 560
Series: Reading Rainbow Books
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 9" W x 6.8" (0.20 lbs) 32 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Plains
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
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.