Taking wing
By: by Nancy Price Graff.
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780618535910
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.; World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.; Orphaned animals -- Fiction.; Ducks -- Fiction.; Farm life -- Vermont -- Fiction.; Grandparents -- Fiction.; Vermont -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: With his father in the Army Air Corps and his mother diagnosed with tuberculosis, thirteen-year-old Gus sets out to incubate a nest of orphaned duck eggs on his grandparents' farm in Vermont.