Betsy Byars

Bingo Brown's Guide to Romance (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bingo's ultimate guide to finding love might need a few more chapters when his long-distance girlfriend returns home Bingo Brown is confident that he can write the definitive guidebook for middle-school boys trying to win over girls. With his baby brother, Jamie, in mind, he jots down notes about the lessons he's learned: Should you worry if the girl you like grows taller than you? (No.) What do you do when hauling your family's dirty clothes to the laundromat? (Go the back way.) But when Bingo's girlfriend, Melissa, moves back to town and doesn't want to talk to him, he realizes he still has some learning to do. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Betsy Byars including rare images from the author's personal collection.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media Teen & Tween
• Seitenzahl: 115
• Altersempfehlung: ab 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781453294147
• Artikelnr.: 44663001

Autorenporträt

Betsy Byars (1928-2020) was a Newbery Medal winner ( The Summer of the Swans) and a National Book Award winner ( The Night Swimmers). She also received an Edgar Award for Wanted . . . Mud Blossom. Byars began writing in college and submitted stories to magazines while raising four children. Her first novel, Clementine, was published in 1962, and in the decades following, she wrote more than fifty children's and young adult titles. Her works appeared on the best books list of the American Library Association, School Library Journal, and American Bookseller. She is best known for her Blossom Family and Bingo Brown book series. Byars was a licensed aircraft pilot, along with her husband of sixty-nine years, Ed. She lived with himabove their own private hangar on an airstrip in Seneca, South Carolina.