Title: Pigeon Summer
First published: July 1992
Description: Mary's father has left home in search of work; her mother is struggling to feed a hungry family. But Mary's thought turn increasingly from present troubles to distant dreams, carried on the wings of Speedwell, her father's racing pigeon, bound for France and - just maybe - for racing glory.
Subjects: Children's stories, English, Readers, Social conditions, Juvenile fiction, Homing pigeons, Depressions, Children's stories, Children's fiction, Pigeons, fiction, Depressions, fiction, England, fiction, Young adult fiction
Places: England
Time periods: 1929