- American Humorous stories, Big books, Children's stories, Humorous stories
On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.
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- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Judith Viorst, Ray Cruz
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Learning Links, Scholastic
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- heb, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781481414128
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“I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.”
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