The Goat

By Anne Fleming

Book Overview

When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on the top of their apartment building.

Rumor says there's a goat living on the roof, but how can that be?

As Kid soon discovers, a goat on the roof may be the least strange thing about her new home, whose residents are both strange and fascinating.

In the penthouse lives Joff Vanderlinden, the famous skateboarding fantasy writer, who happens to be blind. On the ninth floor are Doris and Jonathan, a retired couple trying to adapt to a new lifestyle after Jonathan's stroke. Kenneth P. Gill, on the tenth, loves opera and tends to burble on nervously about his two hamsters -- or are they guinea pigs? Then there's Kid's own high-maintenance mother, Lisa, who is rehearsing for an Off Broadway play and is sure it will be the world's biggest flop.

Then Kid meets Will, whose parents died in the Twin Towers. And when she learns that the goat will bring good luck to whoever sees it, suddenly it becomes very important to know whether the goat on the roof is real.

This paperback edition features a new author's note and an updated font.The Art Room won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award.Emily Carr is an iconic Canadian artist and writer, and this biography focuses on her teaching practice and how she inspired her students.Susan Vande Griek's lyrical poem-story works perfectly with Pascal Milelli's warm oil paintings, which are an interesting contrast to Emily Carr's work.Curriculum connections include Art / visual art, drawing and painting; Language arts / reading, poetry; Social Studies / history, women's history

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1773062999
• ISBN13: 9781773062990
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Groundwood Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 9 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6