- Fiction, Nursery schools, Zoo keepers, Occupations
Four-year-old Sam's appearance as a zookeeper at his nursery school's Future Job Day leads him to a number of exciting activities and discoveries, including reading.
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Warm, classical in form, earnest and contemporary.
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Lois Lowry
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 155
- Publisher
- Peter Smith Pub Inc, Houghton Mifflin Co., Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780844672236
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“"What are you doing, Sam?" his mother called from the bottom of the stairs.”
Lois Ann Lowry (/ˈlaʊəri/;[2] née Hammersberg; March 20, 1937) is an American writer. She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in works for young audiences. Lowry has won two Newbery Medals: for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994. Her book Gooney Bird Greene won the 2002 Rhode Island Children's Book Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry
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