num_pages: 432
description: One young girls determination to save the flock she calls family creates a lasting impact on her community and in her heart.Ten years ago an impossible thing happened: a flock of pigeons picked up a human baby who had been abandoned in an empty lot and carried her bundled in blankets to their roof. Coo has lived her entire life on the rooftop with the pigeons who saved her. Its the only home shes ever known. But then a hungry hawk nearly kills Burr the pigeon she loves most and leaves him gravely hurt.Coo must make a perilous trip to the ground for the first time to find Tully a retired postal worker who occasionally feeds Coos flock and who can heal injured birds. Tully mends Burrs broken wing and coaxes Coo from her isolated life. Living with Tully Coo experiences warmth safety and human relationships for the first time. But just as Coo is beginning to blossom she learns the human world is infinitely more complex - and cruel - than she could have imagined.
language: English
title: Coo
publisher: Greenwillow Books