Going Through the Gate - Hardcover

Every year, at the last one-room schoolhouse in the county, there is a special graduation ceremony for the sixth-graders. Everyone in town has gone through it, and no one is allowed to discuss it. Becky and her four classmates have been preparing for months, with help from their teacher, the mysterious Miss Clough. They've each chosen an animal to study, and they've learned it by heart -- in fact, they know so much that they could practically become their animals. And now it's the morning of graduation. It is time.

Born and raised in western New York where she attended a two-room schoolhouse, Janet S. Anderson later attended Cornell University and went on to teach high school English. She has also worked in libraries and for the New York State Department of Education.

Having lived in Canada, Germany, and Sweden, she has settled in Latham, New York with her husband. She has two grown daughters, Kate and Alix. Janet S. Anderson is also the author of two picture books, The Key Into Winter and Sunflower Sal. copyright ?2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.