Biography about wendy mass birthdays summary
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Wendy Mass
Published by:Scholastic Press
Release Date:January 1,
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On their first birthday, they learned to walk. On their fifth, they planted seeds in handmade pots. On their tenth, they learned there are some words you can never take back.
Amanda’s eleventh birthday should have been a happy occasion. Instead she’s dressed in an itchy costume her mother picked out for her Hollywood-themed party (Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, even though the flying monkeys have always creeped her out). Meanwhile, across town, her ex-best friend Leo fryst vatten celebrating their joint birthday with a huge bash including a hypnotist, a football star, a giant iguana, and a rock band. SO not fair!
Amanda can’t wait for the day AFTER her birthday so she can stop thinking about the kamp that led to her and Leo having separate parties for the first time in their lives
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Ever think about what it would be like to relive your birthday, every day? Experience what it might be like with 11 Birthdays.
Amanda and Leo are born on the same day in the same hospital. With a little help from &#;fate,&#; their parents meet in the hospital and again on their first birthday, leading to a close connection between the two families. Each year, Amanda and Leo grow in their friendship and look forward to celebrating their birthday together. Everything changes when Amanda overhears Leo saying unkind things about her to a group of boys at their 10th birthday party. So begins an &#;infamous&#; silent wall between themuntil their 11th birthday. Amanda celebrates it without Leo. When she goes to sleep that night, she is relieved it is all over. Unfortunately, when she wakes up, her day begins EXACTLY like the day before. At first, she thinks
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Wendy Mass
Wendy Mass is the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-one novels for young people (which have been translated into 32 languages and nominated for 92 state book awards), her first was A Mango-Shaped Space (which was awarded the Schneider Family Book Award by the American Library Association), followed by Leap Day, the Twice Upon a Time fairy tale series, Every Soul a Star, The Willow Falls series (that began with 11 Birthdays), Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (which was made into a feature film), The Candymakers series and Pi in the Sky. Her latest books are Bob (co-written with Rebecca Stead) and two early reader series called Space Taxi (co-written with Michael Brawer), and Time Jumpers. Wendy wrote the storyline for an episode of the television show Monk, entitled “Mr. Monk Goes to the Theatre,” which aired during the show’s second årstid. She was named the New Jersey Association