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**Somehow Jimmie Little must overcome his belief that terrible things are always about to happen** Jimmie Little was always the sensible one in the family. The rest of his aunts, uncles, and cousins were always getting into ridiculous scrapes because of their bold, show-off attitudes. But when he loses his father to a mining accident and his Uncle Pete to a frozen river, everything changed. Jimmie is certain that everything he or anyone else in his family does will lead to certain disaster. It was his family that made him fearful, so it might take his family to help him find his confidence again. *Goodbye, Chicken Little *is a moving story of a boy finding courage in himself and in his relatives. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Betsy Byars including rare images from the author’s personal collection. ** ### Review “A moving story and a marvelous family.” —*The New York Times* ### About the Author Betsy Byars (b. 1928) is an award-winning American author of more than fifty children’s and young adult titles, including *The Summer of the Swans* (1970), which earned her the Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award for *The Night Swimmers* (1980) and an Edgar Award for *Wanted . . . Mud Blossom* (1991). Byars began writing in college and submitted stories to magazines while raising four children. Her first novel, *Clementine*, was published in 1962, and in the decades since, she became one of America’s best-loved authors for young readers, with popular series including Bingo Brown and the Blossom Family stories. Byars and her husband, Ed, are both licensed aircraft pilots and live above their own private hangar on an airstrip in Seneca, South Carolina.