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Gr 4–7—If your life were miserable and confined, would you change places with a boy who could soar above the clouds on beautiful feathered wings, even if it means becoming invisible to all but the "Sensitive" and those with evil intent? Would you take freedom at that price? This is the fate of the loblolly boy, as Michael unwittingly discovers when he, desperate to escape his prisonlike orphanage, exchanges bodies with a mysterious winged...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This award-winning fable-cum-magic realism from New Zealand fits squarely in the tradition of David Almond and Sonya Hartnett. Michael lives a miserable existence at an orphanage until one day the "loblolly boy," gifted with powers of flight and invisibility, appears to him and offers to trade places. The new powers are all they are cracked up to be, but Michael eventually yearns for human...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Michael lives at an orphanage, miserable, until the "loblolly boy," gifted with powers of flight and invisibility, offers to trade pla...Log In or Sign Up to Read More