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Gr 4-6 Bird's classmates make fun of her clothes, as well as of the new boy, Harlem, giving the sixth grader reason to try to make friends with him. She and her neighbor Miss Delphine take a pie over to the apartment above the tattoo parlor where he lives with Mr. Moody, who collects cans for a living. Harlem's mother has sent her son to live with his father, whom he cannot recall ever mee...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Burdette "Bird" Weaver's upbeat narrative voice can't conceal her loneliness. The sixth-grade outcast may not have any friends her own age, but she has dreams. Big dreams. "Just one short day of fame and glory in Freedom, Georgia, would be fine with me.... Just enough to show folks my true self that they been missing all these years." She also wants to go to Disney World. As luck would have it, a school spelling bee offers Bird "the ticket to [her] two goal...Log In or Sign Up to Read More