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Bird Boy
By Hill, Elizabeth Starr & Liu, Lesley
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-37430-723-3
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar Straux Giroux, c1999.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 1999
Gr 2-6 Chang lives on a houseboat on Chinas Li River with his parents and their cormorants, great black birds trained to dive and retrieve fish for their owners. Though he has been mute since birth, he can make sounds the birds understand. Through short chapters and simple sentences, the author traces the boys growth as he helps his father during a night catch, copes with a bully named Jinan, and makes friends with Jinans sister. When Changs father decides...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
