Me Tarzan
by Betsy Byars
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When Dorothy gets the part of Tarzan in the class play, her tremendous yell attracts the attention of increasingly larger and wilder animals.Tags
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In this book a girl is at school and the class is choosing who will be Tarzan for the play. A boy, the girl's mean bully, say he wants to try and as soon as the girl hears that she says I want to try. Later, she gets the roll because she has a better scream like Tarzan but the mother and father get real annoyed by the scream. Every time she screams the mother and father think she got hurt or did something that she isn't allowed to do.
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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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