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Gail Gauthier

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Gail Gauthier has written eight books for children, as well as short stories, essays, and creative nonfiction for adults. She also writes about children's books and writing at her blog Original Content. ...more

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	Happy Kid! 3.55 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hero of Ticonderoga 3.20 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saving The Planet & Stuff 3.38 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Year with Butch and Spike 3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Girl, a Boy, and a Monster Cat by Gail Gauthier (Goodreads Author), Joe Cepeda (Illustrations) 3.17 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Life among the Aliens really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Girl, A Boy, and Three Robbers by Gail Gauthier (Goodreads Author), Joe Cepeda (Illustrator) 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Club Earth it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Life Among the Aliens 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saving the Planet & Stuff 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Introducing Reading History

Reading history is an interest of mine.

It probably got started before I was reading much, when I was watching TV Westerns with my father and then gladiator movies that played late in the afternoon on one of the three TV stations we had access to in rural Vermont. Actual reading history started as a teenager, when I read my fair share of historical romance but also these enormous tomes on royal fig Read more of this blog post »

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Gail Gauthier rated a book it was amazing Thinking About History by Sarah C. Maza	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I'm reading history this year for what I'm calling The Reading History project, and I wanted to start with some reading about history, which is exactly what this book is. In my Reading History journal (yes, I'm even keeping a journal) I describe the ...more
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Gail Gauthier rated a book it was amazing The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is the third horror book I've read, and liked, in three or four months, so I guess I read horror. I very much liked that part of the horror here was the way the women were treated in the culture in which they lived. I was tempted, at points, to ...more
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Gail Gauthier rated a book it was amazing Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Loved this. Though this is a well-known book that's been around a couple of years, I knew nothing about it. Terrific experience reading it. Oddly, Goodreads doesn't have a cover for the American paperback edition I bought at a bookstore a few months a ...more
Jan 30, 2026 01:31PM · like · see review
Gail Gauthier rated a book really liked it And Only to Deceive (Lady Emily, #1) by Tasha Alexander (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I loved the basic premise of this book--a woman falling in love with her husband in a particular way (not wanting to give anything away). And I appreciated that this book had none of the eye rolling, snorting, and repeated descriptions that I often s ...more
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Gail Gauthier rated a book really liked it The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven Rowley (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I still enjoy these characters and the humor, but the story seemed a little thin.
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Gail Gauthier rated a book liked it A Terribly Nasty Business (Beatrice Steele, #2) by Julia Seales (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Gail Gauthier rated a book it was amazing The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I thought this did a good job with a niche subject. The author does show how the telegraph impacted the nineteenth century, and I think makes his argument about the parallels between the past and the present.
Dec 18, 2025 06:14AM · 1 like · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Gail Gauthier rated a book really liked it The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #3) by Malka Ann Older (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Gail Gauthier rated a book it was amazing The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
"This book is horror within a Native American culture. Four youngish Native American men go hunting in an area where they were not supposed to be hunting. They kill quite a number of elk, including a pregnant female who does not experience a quick an ...more
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