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Though they still listen to baseball and go fishing, Thomas and his grandfather find life in their small house in Florida changed when Great-aunt Linzy comes to stay.Tags
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Aunt Linzy hasn’t left Chicago in forty years. But now she's coming to see Thomas and Grandfather for visit -- a long visit. Grandfather can still remember how he and his sister-in-law Linzy used to bicker constantly. She doesn't like fishing or baseball or messy housemates. Aunt Linzy knows only one "sport" -- cleaning! She cleans anything and everything in sight. Still, Grandfather assures Thomas that the two of them can put up with a relative with a few quirks. But how long can Thomas put up with "a few quirks," especially when his favorite team -- the Pittsburgh Pirates -- is sixteen games out of first place, and he's sleeping on the sofa? Thomas has almost had enough.***SRC Quiz***
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Mary Stolz was born on March 24, 1920 in Boston, Massachusetts. She studied at the Teachers College of Columbia University and the Katharine Gibbs School before going to work at Columbia as a secretary. She suffered from debilitating arthritis and wrote her first book during a long convalescence. To Tell Your Love was published in 1950. She wrote show more more than 60 children and young adult books during her lifetime including Ready or Not, Some Merry-Go-Round Music, Leap Before You Look, The Leftover Elf, Emmett's Pig, A Dog on Barkham Street, Cider Days, Ivy Larkin, and The Edge of Next Year. In a Mirror won a Child Study Children's Book Award and The Bully of Barkham Street won a Boys' Club Junior Book Award. Belling the Tiger and The Noonday Friends were named Newbery Honor books. In 1982, she received a George G. Stone Recognition of Merit Award for her entire body of work. She also wrote one adult novel entitled Truth and Consequence. She died of natural causes on December 15, 2006 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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