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by Ann Cameron (Author), Lis Toft (Illustrator)
Gloria is best friends with Julian and his little brother Huey, and she has as much to say as they do. There's the parrot that ruins the Valentine for her mother; Huey's dog, who needs to be cured of his squirrel obsession; and what happens when classmate Latisha tricks Gloria, Julian, and Huey-but they don't know until it's too late! Fans of Ann Cameron's best-selling chapter books about Julian and Huey will love Gloria, too.
"This is where peace begins in an ordinary neighborhood where children learn to address their problems with the help of wise adults who offer them good counsel while respecting the children enough to let them work out their own solutions . . . . Sparkles with humor."
- The Horn Book
Ann Cameron is the author of many books for children, including The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods (a National Book Award Finalist) and four other books about Gloria, Julian, and Huey that have sold over half a million copies. A highly acclaimed writer for young readers, Ann Cameron has turned the chapter book into something of an art form with her sprightly tales of Julian, his brother Huey, and their friend Gloria. As a critic for Kirkus Reviews noted in a 2002 review, Cameron has made it "her mission to impart life information to middle graders."
With the 2003 publication of Colibri, Cameron turned to more serious themes with a novel of kidnapping and abuse set in the lush Guatemalan countryside. A finalist for the National Book Award, Cameron has been a resident of a highland village in Guatemala for more than two decades. "I try to write about characters who have inner abundance--sympathy, imagination, inventiveness, hope, intelligence--and who make happy lives despite modest outer resources," Cameron once said. Cameron's children's fiction is popular worldwide, and has been published in France, England, Canada, Japan, and South Africa, as well as in the United States. She lives in Guatemala, Central America.
Age Group: 7 to 11
ISBN: 0142300233
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