The Moon and I
by Betsy Byars
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While describing her humorous adventures with a blacksnake, Betsy Byars recounts childhood anecdotes and explains how she writes a book.Tags
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The Moon and I is a memoire that Betsy Byars wrote about getting to know her big black snake, Moon. The author always had a love for animals and was eager to grow up to have as many animals as she pleased. The Moon and I unfolds one of Byars childhood dreams as she becomes acquainted with her pet snake who has taken a liking to the rafters on her front porch.
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Betsy Cromer Byars was born in1928. She graduated from Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina. While she was in graduate school, she began writing articles for The Saturday Evening Post and Look. Byars writes novels for young people. She is an expert at tapping in to the pain of adolescence, using bits of her own experience to flavor her show more characters. She is author of more than 60 books and has won numerous awards. Her book about a 14-year-old girl and her mentally retarded brother, The Summer of the Swans (1970), won the Newberry Award as the most distinguished contribution to children's literature that year. Other books include The 18th Emergency (1973), The TV Kid (1976), and After the Goat Man (1995). Betsy Byars died on February 26,2020 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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