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Miss Rumphius  Cover Image Book Book

Miss Rumphius / story and pictures by Barbara Cooney.

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

Record details

  • ISBN: 0670479586
  • ISBN: 9780670479580
  • Physical Description: 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
  • Publisher: New York : The Viking Press, 1982.

Content descriptions

Summary, etc.:
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.
Target Audience Note:
680L Lexile.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader 3.8.
Reading Counts RC: O: 2.9 L680: 2.
Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.8 0.5 5028.
Awards Note:
American Book Award.
Subject: Great-aunts > Juvenile fiction.
Grandfathers > Juvenile fiction.
Voyages and travels > Juvenile fiction.
Librarians > Juvenile fiction.
Gardeners > Juvenile fiction.
Women and the sea > Juvenile fiction.
Old age > Juvenile fiction.
Lupines > Juvenile fiction.
Great-aunts > Fiction.
Genre: Juvenile works.

Available copies

  • 55 of 58 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library.

Holds

  • 2 current holds with 58 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Rowayton Library J COO (Text) 33625000157995 Juvenile Red Dot Available -

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