Title: The someday birds
Description: Charlie s perfectly ordinary life has been unraveling ever since his war journalist father was injured in Afghanistan. When his father heads from California to Virginia for medical treatment, Charlie reluctantly travels cross-country with his boy-crazy sister, unruly brothers, and a mysterious new family friend. He decides that if he can spot all the birds that he and his father were hoping to see someday along the way, then everything might just turn out okay.
Subjects: Babysitters, Automobile travel, Brothers and sisters, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Juvenile fiction, Autism, Children's fiction, Travel, fiction