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Harrington,
Janice N.
THE CHICKEN-CHASING QUEEN OF LAMAR New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 IL K-3, RL 2.2 ISBN 0374312516 |
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If
your Big Mama told you NOT to chase the chickens, you wouldn’t chase the
chickens, would you? When Janice Harrington was a little girl, she says
she was “wicked” and liked to chase her grandmother’s chickens. The little
girl in this story cannot stop chasing the chickens, especially Mhttp://twitter.com/home?status=@shareski%20&in_reply_to_status_id=2461898243&in_reply_to=shareskiiss
Hen. Now I know chickens are not very fast, but I tell you, they can be
tricky, especially
when they have a secret. Miss Hen does not want to be caught. Read this book to find out if the little girl can catch Miss Hen or not – after all, the title is “The Chicken Chasing Queen…” and maybe you will get some ideas on how to catch something you really want—like a great book to read. (Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards Program, 2009-2010) |
| SUBJECTS:
Chickens -- Fiction.
Farm life -- Fiction. African Americans -- Fiction. |
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