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Miss Rumphius / story and pictures by Barbara Cooney.

Cooney, Barbara, 1917-2000 (author.).

Summary:

As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780670479580
  • ISBN: 0140505393
  • ISBN: 9780140505399
  • ISBN: 0670479586
  • ISBN: 0670479586
  • ISBN: 9780670479580
  • ISBN: 9781484429334
  • Physical Description: 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
  • Edition: 30th anniversary edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Viking Press, [1982]

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
2.9 Follett Library Resources
680L Lexile
Accelerated Reader Level 2.9, Butner-Stem Middle. Point VAlue 2.0
Accelerated Reader Level 2.9, Creedmoor. Point Value 2.0
Accelerated Reader Level 3.8, Butner-Stem. Point Value 0.5
Accelerated Reader Level 3.8, Credle. Point value 0.5
Accelerated Reader Level 3.8, Toler-Oak Hill. Point value 0.5
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR 3.8 0.5
Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.8 0.5 5028.

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Brownstone Book Fund.
Great-aunts > Juvenile fiction.
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Gardeners > Juvenile fiction.
Women and the sea > Juvenile fiction.
Old age > Juvenile fiction.
Lupines > Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.

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  • 99 of 113 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Madison County Public Library.

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