num_pages: 368
description: Bestselling author Natalie Lloyd returns with her most personal book to date a story about a girl whoarmed with her trusty snazzy wheelchairrefuses to let her brittle bone disease stand in the way of adventure.Twelve-year-old homeschooled Olive is tired of being seen as fragile just because she has osteogenesis imperfecta (otherwise known as brittle bone disease) so shes thrilled when she finally convinces her parents to let her attend Macklemore Elementary. Olive cant wait to go to a traditional school and make the friends shes always longed for until a disastrous first day dashes her hopes of ever fitting in.Then Olive hears whispers about a magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives near Macklemore. Itll be the solution to all her problems! If she can find the bird and prove herself worthy the creature will make her most desperate secret wish come true.When it becomes clear that she cant solve the mystery on her own Olive teams up with some unlikely allies who help her learn the truth about the bird. And on the way she just might learn that our fragile places lead us to the most wonderful magic of all . . .
language: English
title: Hummingbird
publisher: Scholastic Press