Sparrow Jack
By: Mordicai Gerstein.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Bardsley, John -- Juvenile fiction.; Bardsley, John -- Fiction.; Sparrows -- Fiction.; Immigrants -- Fiction.; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Fiction.; Pennsylvania -- History -- 1865- -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: In 1868, John Bardsley, an immigrant from England, brought one thousand sparrows from his home country back to Philadelphia, where he hoped they would help save the trees from the inch-worms that were destroying them. Based on a true story.