Book
Bird
- Published
- 2004
- Genre
- Fiction
- Pages
- 144
- Words
- 20508
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 4.2
- AR interest level
- MG+ — upper middle grades, 6–8
- Lexile
- 710L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 10–13
Thirteen-year-old Bird runs away from her Ohio home to search for her missing stepfather. In Alabama she becomes entangled in the lives of two boys and an older neighbor, gradually discovering that every family carries its own grief and that connection can grow in unexpected places.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780803728479
- ISBN-10
- 0803728476
Tags
ALSC NotablesEmotions-SadnessFamily Life-StepfamiliesInterpersonal Relationships-NeighborsPeople-TeenagersRealistic FictionUnited States-AlabamaUnited States-Ohio