Two Plus One Goes A.P.E

by Tricia Springstubb

An early chapter book finds Ida and Betsy joining A.P.E.--Adopt a Piece of Earth--for Earth Day, and criticizing a younger schoolmate, Missy, for wanting to save a willow tree and forming her own group.

88 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Sister James Bernard, my first grade teacher, taught me how to read. Our class had 60 children (yes) and we went up and down the long rows, taking turns reading aloud. There was absolutely no reading ahead, which was torture. I was always dying to know What happened next? (though with Dick and Jane, the answer was usually, Not much.) As I grew up, I began to wonder not only what happened, but why, and much much later,inhabiting other people's stories wasn't enough. I began to make my own.