Absolutely Normal Chaos

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Absolutely Normal Chaos

• By Sharon Creech

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Mary Lou Finney has to keep a journal for the
summer.

• BORING!  Plus she has to keep the journal over
  the entire summer!  And she doesn't even know the
  difference between a diary and a journal.  So it
  looks like a pretty boring journal with bizarre
  family boring stuff until Carl Ray comes along. 
  Carl Ray, who doesn't talk, who can't even make
  his own bed (Mary Lou has to make it for him),
  who can't get a job and eats everything in
  sight.  Until a neighbor dies, and Carl Ray
  inherits a ring, and the mystery begins

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Meet Sharon Creech

• When I was young, I wanted to be many things
  when I grew up a painter, an ice skater, a
  singer, a teacher, and a reporter. It soon became
  apparent that I had little drawing talent, very
  limited tolerance for falling on ice, and
  absolutely no ability to stay on key while
  singing.

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Where does she get ideas?

• This is a hard question to answer because a
  book contains not one, but hundreds, maybe
  thousands, of little ideas. Often it seems as if
  the main character and the place just arrive in
  my head one day, but later I can see that perhaps
  they arrived there because I'd been thinking
  about my family or someone I'd seen at a bus
  stop.

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Learn more online

• Sharon Creechs website
• http//www.sharoncreech.com/index.html