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Seidler, Tor

The Silent Spillbills

216 pp. | HarperCollins/di Capua | November, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-06-205180-6 $$14.95 | Library ISBN 0-06-205181-4 $$14.89
(4) 4-6 Katerina and her father discover a new species of bird, the silent spillbill. When the spillbills are blamed for causing two airplane crashes, Katerina must disregard her stuttering problem and publicly convince her family's aerodynamics firm not to exterminate the birds. The characterization of Katerina's grandfather is a central-casting stereotype of a cranky, aged tycoon. There is a chilly, remote quality to the prose, but the plot is intriguing.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

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