description: BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author!When his mother leaves with the father of his worst enemy at school, nine-year-old Jeremy seeks to make sense of her abandonment. He throws himself into recreating the Book of Birds, a collection of drawings that his mother took with her on the day she left. While his father fights his own depression and his sister distances herself from their lives, Jeremy turns wholeheartedly to nature, and finds solace in the quiet comfort of drawing.
language: English
title: The Day My Mother Left
titlecomplete: The Day My Mother Left
genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 221
publisher: Listening Library (Audio)