TY - BOOK AU - Cooney,Barbara TI - Miss Rumphius: story and pictures SN - 9780140505399 (pbk.) U1 - 823.92 COO 23 PY - 1985/// CY - New York PB - Puffin Books, KW - Travel KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Reminiscing KW - Responsibility in girls KW - Fiction N1 - 680 Lexile. Houghton Mifflin reading program. Ages 003-009. Lexile: 680. American Book Award, 1983 N2 - As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all ER -