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180 pp.
| Walker |
September, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-8027-8879-3$$16.95
(3)
4-6
Selling medical elixir in Florida with his adopted father, Ben meets two destitute orphans who illegally hunt birds and sell their feathers. Narrated alternately by Ben and his father's macaw, this solid novel set in the early 1900s places Ben in a moral dilemma as he adopts two orphaned egrets and debates turning his new friends in to the warden.