Part geographical wandering, part New Zealand history, and part cultural study, this narrative recounts one man's personal journey into the world of birds and birdwatching. Written by an award-winning journalist and with black and white photographs taken by Major Geoffrey Buddle, it traces the fasci
How to Make a Bird
โ Scribed by Murray, Martine
- Book ID
- 109192022
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc.
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 196 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780545283120
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A beautiful novel that captures the aching of a teenager ready to heal.
It's dawn, on an empty road in the countryside. Empty, except for the girl in the long, red evening gown, standing next to a bicycle, and looking back at the home she's about to leave. Mannie's ready to start a new life and forget the terrible things that have happened here, but there are questions that need to be answered before she can let go. Questions about her elegant but unstable mother, her brother who's always overshadowed her, and his friend Harry Jacob, who just might be Mannie's boyfriend . . .
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