Claim: Bird Girl's parent's want to marry her off, but she escapes as she does not want to get pregnant in Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun, a 1996 novel by Velma Wallis.
Evidence: Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun is a 1996 novel by Velma Wallis. Meanwhile, the parents of Bird Girl want to marry her off. Defiantly, she escapes because she wants to prevent the dreaded pregnancy.