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    Taking Care of Terrific by Lois Lowry

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    • Age Range: 12 and up
    • Pub. Date: May 1984
    • 176pp

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      • Pub. Date: May 1984
      • Publisher: San Val, Incorporated
      • Format: Library Binding, 176pp
      • Age Range: 12 and up

      Synopsis

      Going to the park to broaden his horizons, fourteen-year-old babysitter Enid enjoys unexpected friendships with a bag lady and a black saxophonist.

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      Taking her overprotected young charge to the public park to broaden his horizons, fourteen-year-old baby sitter Enid enjoys unexpected friendships with a black saxophonist and a bag lady until she is charged with kidnapping.

      "Touching, inventive, believable, and hilarious . . . with a solid base of sharp characterization and some pithy commentary on our society."

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      Biography

      Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After several years at Brown University, she turned to her family and to writing. She is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader’s Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award. Ms. Lowry now divides her time between Cambridge and an 1840s farmhouse in Maine. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com

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      Loved it!by Anonymous

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      December 09, 2005: Wow!This is a great book.In this book you get to realize how Lois Lowry can go to a setting in denmark(Number the stars)to the Public Garden in Boston (Taking care of terrific).Enid discovers a wonderful friendship with strangers in the public garden and realizes some risk are worthwhile in a lifetime.

      great bookby Anonymous

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      December 16, 2000: I liked this book because it was very interestinbg and taught me about different types of people. I also thought that it was good that Enid and Seth finally become girlfriend and boyfriend. The housekeeper was really cool!


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