Bird
By: Crystal Chan
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781442450899; 9781442450905; 9781442450912
Subjects: Dysfunctional families; Racially mixed people; Juvenile fiction; Family problems; Superstition; Grief; Selective mutism; Racially-mixed people; Fiction
Description: Twelve-year-old Jewel was born on the day her brother Bird died and lives in a house of silence and secrets, but a new boy in her Iowa town may help find the answers Jewel wants despite her Jamaican grandfather's warning that he is a "duppy," a malevolent spirit.
Notes: Ages 8-12.

Accelerated Reader AR 4.6 9.0 165634.

Reading Counts RC 4.5 62531.