INTERMEDIATE FICTION
(3) 4-6 In an effort to rid his property of all "vermin," Mr. Harris orders his gamekeeper to destroy the eggs of a rare red kite. But the gamekeeper's son rescues an egg, raises and releases the bird of prey, and tries to prevent Mr. Harris and his father from killing it. Set in 1964 England, the absorbing novel contains an author's note and afterword about red kites and about gamekeeping.

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