Author: | Laurence Yep |
Subcategory: | Growing Up & Facts of Life |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Hyperion Books for Children; Reprint edition (September 10, 2001) |
Pages: | 144 pages |
Category: | For children |
Rating: | 4.9 |
Other formats: | mbr mobi txt lrf |
Cockroach Cooties book. Laurence Yep tells a nice brother-to-brother story about two siblings growing up in Chinatown with two very different takes on life.
Cockroach Cooties book. Older brother, Teddy's attitudes fall more in line with that of his parents. Younger brother, Bobby is more openminded and idealistic. He keeps one as a pet.
Used availability for Laurence Yep's Cockroach Cooties. May 2008 : USA Library Binding.
Laurence Yep, born in 1948 in San Francisco, is a well-known writer of fiction for young adults. Yep was educated at Marquette University and holds a P. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Yep is Chinese American. He grew up in a black neighborhood in San Francisco, attended school in Chinatown, and later attended a predominately white high school. Much of the subject matter for his work comes out of his experiences trying to establish his own identity as a child and teenager
Cockroach Cooties Paperback – October 2, 2001. Laurence Yep is the author of numerous beloved children's books, including the Newbery Honor Books Dragonwings and Dragon's Gate, ALA Notable Book The Rainbow People, and Later, Gator. He lives in California.
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Cockroach Cooties is a children's novel by Laurence Yep. Two brothers, Teddy and Bobby, try to defend themselves from a school bully named Arnie. The brothers discover that the bully is afraid of cockroaches. Bobby finds a cockroach and names it Hercules. With the help of Hercules, the boys figure out what is happening to the bully.
Cooties is a term for head or body lice. In the book TKAM, that is what they were talking about. Those were REAL cooties
Cooties is a term for head or body lice. In early days, a simple way to kill lice was to wash your hair with kerosene (PLEASE do not do this- it is VERY dangerous) If I recall, the book made reference to someone's hair "smelling of kerosene". Asked in Authors, Poets, and Playwrights. Plot summary. It was a William Allen book nominee.
Laurence Yep. Country. Cockroach Cooties is a children's novel by Laurence Yep. Two brothers, Teddy and Bobby, try to defend themselves because of a school bully named Arnie. It won the Iowa Children's Choice Award, the Texas Bluebonnet Award, the Kentucky Book Award, and the Laura Ingalls Book Award. - Plot summary - Two brothers, Teddy and Bobby, try to defend . - Plot summary - Two brothers, Teddy and Bobby, try to defend themselves from a school bully named Arnie. Laurence Yep.