Leroy’s voice continued through the intercom. I just want to alert you all to the weather forecast, Mr. He really thought it was a boring necktie, but if they ever met his mother-in-law they should not tell her that he thought that.

He had explained that his wife’s mother had given him the blue striped one for his birthday, so he felt that he had to wear it now and then. He was smart and funny and he wore the most interesting neckties, except for the blue striped one. He was Watertower Elementary’s principal and he was the best principal, the children thought, in the whole world. She’d needed to explain that, because nobody had had a clue who she was, and she had arrived wearing pajamas and cowboy boots, which made her somewhat mysterious.īut everyone already knew who Mr. It wasn’t like the day in October when Gooney Bird Greene had appeared in their classroom for the first time and said, I’m your new student. Leroy’s voice crackled through the intercom speaker after a fifth-grader named Henry Newmeyer had led the entire school in the Pledge of Allegiance. Pidgeon’s mother organized by the irrepressible Gooney Bird Greene. Pidgeon’s second-grade class studies poetry and her students write haiku, couplets, free verse, and finally, a tribute to Mrs. Gooney Bird is so absurd / by Lois Lowry. The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows: For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003. Illustrations copyright © 2009 by Middy ThomasĪll rights reserved.

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