OL8125094W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.15 Pages 134 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1557361452 Urn:lcp:girlcalledal00gree:epub:a072feaa-c3ac-46df-baa7-1ec66126b40a Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier girlcalledal00gree Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3b003圆z Isbn 0440428106ĩ780440428107 Lccn 69018255 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Synopsis Her name is Al, not Alexandra Als real name is Alexandra, but she hates it. Urn:lcp:girlcalledal00gree:lcpdf:5b048be6-8c39-4d0d-8b4e-39fe0d6653b1 A Girl Called Al: The Al Series, Book One View larger image. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:18:09 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA125714 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Old Greenwich, Conn. and friendship with the nonconforming Alexandra who likes to be called Al. Greene also wrote other juvenile and adult novels, among them Nora: Maybe a Ghost Story and Isabelle the Itch. A Girl Called Al has 0 reviews and 0 ratings. The book was adapted for television in 1976 as Very Good Friends and was shown on the ABC After-school Special. The story relates how a young girl learns to cope with the accidental death of her sister. At the age of eleven, Greene's sister died. One of Greene's most popular books, Beat the Turtle Drum (Viking 1976), came from personal experience.

Al was a likable character and other books followed. Greene, the daughter of newspaper reporters, published A Girl Called Al (Viking, 1969) the story about a very intelligent girl who is an under-achiever and latch key kid, although Greene says that at the time of the writing the term wasn't being used yet. Greene also wrote other juvenile and adult novels, a Born on October 27th, 1924, Constance C.

A Girl Called Al by Constance C. Greene