Don't feed the boy
Eleven-year-old Whit's zookeeper parents have rarely allowed him to go outside of the Alabama zoo they run, but he stops seeing it as such a cage when he meets "Bird Girl, for whom the place is a refuge from problems at home.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Roaring Brook Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | Eleven-year-old Whit's zookeeper parents have rarely allowed him to go outside of the Alabama zoo they run, but he stops seeing it as such a cage when he meets "Bird Girl, for whom the place is a refuge from problems at home. |
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| Physical Description: | 282 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781596437555 (hardcover) 1596437553 (hardcover) |
| Author Notes: | Irene Latham is a poet and novelist who lives and writes in Birmingham, Alabama. Her debut novel Leaving Gee's Bend was named a Bank Street College Best Book, a SIBA finalist, a Crystal Kite Finalist and ALLA's Children's Book of the Year. As a child she dreamed of being a zoo veterinarian and even trained as a teenage zoo volunteer. All it took was observing one surgery to convince her that perhaps she'd better just write about the animals instead. |
