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Lowry, Lois.
GOONEY BIRD AND THE ROOM MOTHER
New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
IL 3-6, RL 5.2
ISBN 0618532307
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Follow the further adventures of Gooney Bird Greene as she helps her 2nd grade class celebrate the holidays as only Gooney Bird can.  Gooney Bird is put in charge of the annual Thanksgiving pageant and she is definitely up to the task.  Not only does she dress in amazing outfits, she shows her teacher a thing or two about how things should be done.  Through it all, Gooney Bird promises the help of a room mother that must remain anonymous.  It isn't until after the pageant that her identity can be revealed.  Can you guess who it is?
SUBJECTS:    Thanksgiving Day -- Fiction.
                        Schools -- Fiction.
                        Humorous stories.
                        Humorous fiction.

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