The Goat by Anne Fleming When Kid 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. So Kid and Will set out to learn the truth, even if it means confronting their own fears. · Anne Fleming is the author of Pool-Hopping and Other Stories (shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award and the Governor General’s Award), and Anomaly and Gay Dwarves of www.doorway.ru is a long-time and highly regarded teacher of creative writing who has taught at the University of British Columbia, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Douglas College, . The Goat is a wonderful adventure that revolves around an apartment building in NYC. The characters are quirky, each having their own issues, and they find community in their effort to resolve the mystery /5(13).
"The convoluted, intricate tale is filled with joy, sweet sadness, and a triumph of spirit. Lovely." — Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW "With delicate insight and humor, Fleming cleverly unites people — and goats — from vastly different walks of life in an offbeat celebration of courage and individuality." — Booklist, STARRED REVIEW "A quirky, riotous story that uses a preposterous conceit to. A goat on the roof a New York city apartment building? That is indeed the case in Anne Fleming's The Goat from Groundwood Press. The lives of a diverse group of apartment dwellers become entwined in this short, but rich story. Using a third person omniscient narration, Fleming moves readers from one character to the next -- goat included. Author Bio. Anne Fleming is the author of Pool-Hopping and Other Stories (shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award, and the Governor General's Award), Anomaly, and Gay Dwarves of www.doorway.ru is a long-time and highly regarded teacher of creative writing. The Goat is her first full-length work for young readers.
The Goat is a wonderful adventure that revolves around an apartment building in NYC. The characters are quirky, each having their own issues, and they find community in their effort to resolve the mystery of the goat who lives on the roof top of the apartment building. 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. Anne Fleming is the author of five books: Pool-Hopping and Other Stories, shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award and the Governor General’s Award; the critically acclaimed novel, Anomaly; Gay Dwarves of America, also shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson; poemw, a book of poems shortlisted for the BC Book Prizes’ Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; and The Goat, a.
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