num_pages: 384
description: In her sixteen years of life Starbird has never touched a dollar bill. Shes never been in a car. Shes never used a cell phone. Thats because Starbird has always lived on the Free Family Farm a commune in the woods of Washington State. But all that is about to change. When Starbird gets her Calling to be a waitress at the Free Familys restaurant in Seattle she decides to leave behind the only home shes ever known. Nothing could have prepared Starbird for the World Outside or for what it would teach her about the Familyand herself. From the author of The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door comes this hilarious and poignant story about finding your true calling in life.
language: English
title: Starbird Murphy and the World Outside
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers