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Adopted by woodchucks at birth, a baby goose never feels she truly belongs--until the day she discovers she can fly.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bang, Molly
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, c1996.
Subjects:	Geese > Juvenile fiction. Woodchuck > Juvenile fiction. Identity > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Adopted by woodchucks at birth, a baby goose never feels she truly belongs--until the day she discovers she can fly.
Physical Description:	1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
ISBN:	0590890050
Author Notes:	Molly Bang was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1943. After college, Bang taught English in Japan. She returned to the U.S and earned her graduate degree in East Asian Languages and Literatures, then worked in India, Bangladesh, and West Africa for Johns Hopkins, Unicef and Harvard. Her first books were translations of folktales, which she also illustrated. Bang has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious Caldecott Honor Book Award three times, for The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, Ten, Nine, Eight and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry. She won the Giverny Award for Best Science Picture Book for Common Ground in 1998. Ten, Nine, Eight also won the ALA Notable Children's Book and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry, won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. It was also an ALA Notable Book and a Jane Addams Children's Honor Book Her titles include Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays, Tiger's Fall, Little Rat Sets Sail, My Light, and Picture This: Perception and Composition. (Bowker Author Biography)