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Gravity is bringing me down

Gravity becomes a very personal problem for Leda as she stumbles and tumbles through a long day.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Van Draanen, Wendelin (Author)
Other Authors:	Li, Cornelia (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2024]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Gravity > Juvenile fiction. Clumsiness > Juvenile fiction. Students > Juvenile fiction. School fiction > Juvenile. Humorous fiction > Juvenile. Picture books.
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Summary:	Gravity becomes a very personal problem for Leda as she stumbles and tumbles through a long day.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Audience:	Ages 4-8. Grades K-1.
ISBN:	9780593375921 0593375920 9780593375938 0593375939 9780593375952 0593375955
Author Notes:	Wendelin Van Draanen was born on January 6, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of chemists who emigrated from Holland. She worked as a math teacher and then as a computer science teacher before becoming an author. Wendelin Van Draanen began her writing career with a screenplay and soon switched to adult novels and then children's books. She is best known for her Sammy Keyes series of novels, which she started writing in 1997, featuring a teenage detective named Samantha Keyes. Her popular Sammy Keyes series had been nominated four times for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children's Mystery and won with "Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief". Her Shredderman series also yielded a Christopher Medal for Secret Identity. She has also written several novels such as: How I Survived Being a Girl and Flipped. (Bowker Author Biography)