She did all her work neatly and quickly, and she followed instructions.īut soon it was clear that Gooney Bird was mysterious and interesting. Pidgeon provided, right smack in the middle of everything, and began doing second grade spelling. They had never met anyone like Gooney Bird Greene. The class stared at the new girl with admiration. I want a desk right smack in the middle of the room, because I like to be right smack in the middle of everything. My name is Gooney Bird Greene-that’s Greene with a silent ‘e’ at the end-and I just moved here from China. We’re in the middle of our spelling lesson. She was wearing pajamas and cowboy boots and was holding a dictionary and a lunch box. She opened the second grade classroom door at ten o’clock on a Wednesday morning and appeared there all alone, without even a mother to introduce her. She arrived in October, after the first month of school had already passed. There was a new student in the Watertower Elementary School.
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