Title: Bird
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.
Subjects: Children's fiction, Superstition, fiction, Grief, fiction, Racially mixed people, fiction, Iowa, fiction, Young adult fiction, Superstition, Fiction, Grief, Family problems, Selective mutism, Racially-mixed people