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Seeing Jane's dog, Yum-Yum, help cheer up children in a cancer ward makes Zoe think about having her puppy, Sneakers, trained to do therapy, too, especially when Yum-Yum becomes very ill.Tags
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Laurie Halse Anderson was born in Potsdam, New York on October 23, 1961. She received a B.S.L.L. in Languages and Linguistics from Georgetown University in 1984. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked as a freelance reporter. Her first book, Ndito Runs, was published in 1996. She has written numerous books for children including Turkey show more Pox, No Time for Mother's Day, Fever 1793, Speak, Catalyst, Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution, Chains and The Impossible Knife of Memory. She also created the Wild at Heart series, which was originally published by American Girl but is now called the Vet Volunteers series and is published by Penguin Books for Young Readers. Anderson has been nominated and won multiple honorary awards for her literary work. For the masterpiece Speak, Anderson won the Printz Honor Book Award, a National Book Award nomination, Golden Kite award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her book Fever 1793 won the American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults selection and the Junior Library Guild selection. In 2008, Chains was selected for the National Book Award Finalist and in 2009 was awarded for its Historical Fiction the Scott O'Dell Award. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Laurie Halse Anderson is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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- Canonical title
- Say Goodbye; Say Good-Bye
- Original title
- Say Good-bye
- Original publication date
- 1986-12
- People/Characters
- Elizabeth Wakefield; Jessica Wakefield; Todd Wilkins; Nicholas Morrow
- Important places
- Sweet Valley, California, USA; Vermont, USA
- Dedication
- To Ben Baglio, with special thanks for all his excellent work.
- First words
- "Elizabeth, if you don't open your door this minute, I'm going to break it down!" Jessica Wakefield wailed.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And I hope Betsy Martin has the decency to step back and let him find happiness after all these months!
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .A54385 .S — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- 343
- Popularity
- 91,530
- Rating
- (3.94)
- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 17
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 4
