The silent spillbills
By: by Tor Seidler.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Birds -- Fiction.; Stuttering -- Fiction.; Airplanes -- Fiction.; Grandfathers -- Fiction.; Wildlife conservation -- Fiction.; Connecticut -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Thirteen-year-old bird-lover Katerina, plagued by stuttering and lack of self-confidence, stands up to her cantankerous grandfather, head of Farnsworth Aeronautics, to save the unique Connecticut wetland birds which inspired the design of the latest Farnsworth airplane.
Notes: "Michael di Capua books."