Fenway and the Loudmouth Bird


 
 
 
 Sniff out all the MAKE WAY FOR FENWAY! chapter books!
 
 Fenway and the Bone Thieves
 Fenway and the Frisbee Trick
 Fenway and the Loudmouth Bird
 
 Dig up these middle grade books about Fenway, too!
 
 Fenway and Hattie
 Fenway and Hattie and the Evil Bunny Gang
 Fenway and Hattie Up to New Tricks
 Fenway and Hattie in the Wild
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 First published in the United States of America by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023
 Text copyright © 2023 by Victoria J. Coe
 Illustrations copyright © 2023 by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff
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 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
 Names: Coe, Victoria J., author. | Lew-Vriethoff, Joanne, illustrator.
 Title: Fenway and the loudmouth bird / Victoria J. Coe; illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff.
 Description: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2023. | Series: Make way for Fenway!
 Summary: “Fenway is flabbergasted when he meets a bird who speaks Human, and he is even more surprised when they actually become friends”—Provided by publisher.
 Identifiers: LCCN 2022006936 (print) | LCCN 2022006937 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593406977 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593406984 (paperback) | ISBN 9780593406991 (epub)
 Subjects: CYAC: Jack Russell terrier—Fiction. | Dogs—Fiction. | Cage birds—Fiction. | LCGFT: Animal fiction.
 Classification: LCC PZ7.1.C635 Ft 2023 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.C635 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022006936
 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022006937
 ISBN 9780593406977 (hardcover)
 ISBN 9780593406984 (paperback)
 ISBN 9780593406991 (ebook)
 Design by Marikka Tamura, adapted for ebook by Michelle Quintero
 This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
 The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.
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 For Rose —V.J.C.
 Be free, Papa, we love you forever ’n’ ever —J.L.V.
 
 
 Contents
 1. Nana’s
 2. Merlin
 3. Goodbye, Treats
 4. The Bell
 5. SQUIRRELS
 6. Bacon!
 7. Alone
 8. The Search
 9. Plop-Jingle-Jingle
 10. Friends
 
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 1
 NANA’S
 As soon as my short human, Hattie, opens the car door, I hop outside. My ears are perked. My 
 2
 MERLIN
 Whoa! Are my ears playing tricks on me? Or did that bird just speak . . . Human???