Background
Gail was born on September 28, 1953, in Middlebury, Vermont, United States. She was the daughter of Henry (a farmer) and Shirley (an institutional cook; maiden name, Adams) Gauthier.
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States
Gail studied at the University of Vermont and received a Bachelor of Science (education).
(Trying to make his mark in the world, Michael is excited ...)
Trying to make his mark in the world, Michael is excited about an opportunity to work on an environmental magazine with his grandparents, but after hearing their views on the long car ride back to their home, Michael wonders if becoming a radical environmentalist is the best plan of action for him.
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2003
(All cynical Kyle wants is to get through the seventh grad...)
All cynical Kyle wants is to get through the seventh grade unnoticed, but a self-help book from his well-meaning mother changes all that. Magically, the book seems to know all about him. And it wants him to improve his life. Not only is he friendless, mistakenly taking super-difficult accelerated courses, and infamous for allegedly being involved in a violent "incident" on the bus (a rep that has the school terror sticking to him like glue), one of the true A Kids wants to lure him into questioning whether his class cheated on their state exams. How could a book help anyone through this kind of misery?
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2006
(Sam’s house would have been the perfect place for Brandon...)
Sam’s house would have been the perfect place for Brandon to go after school. Big-Screen TV is on all the time, and Sam is a boy. Instead, Brandon’s mom sends him to Hannah’s, where he is forced to play imaginary games in which Hannah is always the hero. Even the cat, Buttercup, gets more exciting roles than Brandon. Then a new neighbor moves in with a tiny dog who is actually quite fierce. He gives Hannah lots of material for games, but when Buttercup defends her territory with some malicious tactics, reality becomes much more exciting than fiction.
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2007
(When Brandon has to go to Hannah’s house after school, sh...)
When Brandon has to go to Hannah’s house after school, she always gets to be the leader while he has to play her sidekick or some villain she’s out to destroy. Then the horrible Sunderland kids try to steal Hannah’s monster cat, Buttercup, and suddenly Brandon and Hannah have an exciting real-life mission on their hands. All the games of vampire hunter and enemy agent in the world couldn’t have prepared them for the task of saving Buttercup from the Sunderlands’ grubby clutches.
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2008
Gail was born on September 28, 1953, in Middlebury, Vermont, United States. She was the daughter of Henry (a farmer) and Shirley (an institutional cook; maiden name, Adams) Gauthier.
Gail studied at the University of Vermont and received a Bachelor of Science (education).
Gail Gauthier started to work as an educational assistant at the University of Connecticut, Storrs during 1976-80. She was an instructor in the Division of Extended and Continuing Education during 1980-81, an instructor in the Community Services Division during 1982-83.
She worked as a Sunday school instructor at the Congregational Church of Marlborough, Marlborough beginning from 1986. Later, Gail was a volunteer writing instructor at Elmer Thienes-Mary Hall School, Marlborough during 1992-96.
In 1996 she wrote My Life among the Aliens. According to a Kirkus Reviews contributor, Gail Gauthier’s My Life among the Aliens “is a droll and irreverent comedy, at the center of which beats a heart of gold.” LOS Angeles Times Book Review contributor Karen Stabiner found the book “cute but not memorable.” Discussing My Life among the Aliens in the School Library Journal, Anne Connor called it “a delightful science-fiction romp in which the impossible is presented as if it were perfectly natural.”
Her work A Year with Butch and Spike was published in 1998. “Gauthier does not skimp on any chance for humor, deploying satire and slapstick in turn,” wrote Susan P. Bloom in a Horn Book Magazine review of A Year with Butch and Spike.
Club Earth is the sequel to My Life among the Aliens was published in 1999.
(Trying to make his mark in the world, Michael is excited ...)
2003(When Brandon has to go to Hannah’s house after school, sh...)
2008(All cynical Kyle wants is to get through the seventh grad...)
2006(Sam’s house would have been the perfect place for Brandon...)
2007Quotations: “Writing for children gives me an opportunity to explore interests that I seem to share with them. Children are definite outsiders in a world controlled by adults, and the outsider theme is one I find myself attracted to. Using humor to attack the status quo is something I find children enjoy (I certainly did when I was in grade school), and it fits in with my outsider stories about aliens, bad boys, and girls who don’t understand getting together to play with Barbie dolls.''
Gauthier is a member of Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
On July 23, 1977, Gail married E. Russell Johnston III (a civil engineer). They have children: William Russell Johnston, Robert Gauthier Johnston.