Author/Uploaded by Jeff Miller
Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents My Waiting Room Next Destination Half the Battle Welcome to Sugarland The Blue Beast Gators An Un-Whale-come Stranger And Son A Bestseller This Is New The Florida Clinic The Special Doors The Good Ice Lou Days Shake Therapy
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Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents My Waiting Room Next Destination Half the Battle Welcome to Sugarland The Blue Beast Gators An Un-Whale-come Stranger And Son A Bestseller This Is New The Florida Clinic The Special Doors The Good Ice Lou Days Shake Therapy The Snail Kite No Service Back at It Awake Hello, Waiting, My Old Friend Ten Bucks an Hour A Truce The Baby Blue Beast Time to Get Serious A Window Bird Facts Southern Hospitality The List Official Who’s Who The Map Islands Robb with Two b’s Job Security Rudy Style Long View A Wild Grouse Chase Gary and Loretta The Fossil Lost and Found The Room Again Peerless Pines Liberation Station Club Members Only Shipshape Well, That’s New I’ll Be Amazing Grays A Proper Burial Message The Eagle Has Landed Dom’s Water Safety First Trip To the Top Worst of the Worst Year of Our Fjord Movin’ Out (Graham’s Song) Friday Hole in Your Bucket Sugarland Moss Saturday Sneaking Around Let’s Go! Nurse’s Station The Beginning Lou’s World Bird Facts Uninvited Guests Wrong Way All Ashore On Our Own Together Again Owe You One Secret Compartment The Truth Tripod The “You Belong Here” Club The Call The Message Let’s Go! Pillow Fort See You Later A Chance Waiting News Still in the Woods Daydream Nightmare Found and Lost Morning Worldview A Natural Two Hundred Fifty Words Bird Mail Victory Milkshake Hello. Goodbye. Acknowledgments Guide Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents My Waiting Room iii iv 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 UNION SQUARE KIDS and the distinctive Union Square Kidslogo are trademarks of Union Square & Co., LLC. Union Square & Co., LLC, is a subsidiary of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. Text © 2023 Alloy Entertainment, LLCCover illustration © 2023 Kimberly Glyder Produced by Alloy Entertainment All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (including electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without prior written permission from the publisher. ISBN 978-1-4549-4504-8ISBN 978-1-4549-4506-2 (e-book) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Miller, Jeff R., author. Title: Rare birds / Jeff Miller. Description: [New York] : Union Square Kids, [2023] | Audience: Ages 8-12. | Audience: Grades 4-6. | Summary: While his mother waits for a life-saving heart transplant, eleven-year-old Graham Dodds sets out to find an endangered Snail Kite in the Florida Everglades. Identifiers: LCCN 2022002466 | ISBN 9781454945048 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781454945062 (e-book) Subjects: CYAC: Birds--Fiction. | Endangered species--Fiction. | Heart--Transplantation--Fiction. | Families--Fiction. | Everglades (Fla.)--Fiction. | Florida--Fiction. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Adolescence & Coming of Age | JUVENILE FICTION / To my mother. And to the person who gave us the gift of life. We are forever grateful. Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication My Waiting Room Next Destination Half the Battle Welcome to Sugarland The Blue Beast Gators An Un-Whale-come Stranger And Son A Bestseller This Is New The Florida Clinic The Special Doors The Good Ice Lou Days Shake Therapy The Snail Kite No Service Back at It Awake Hello, Waiting, My Old Friend Ten Bucks an Hour A Truce The Baby Blue Beast Time to Get Serious A Window Bird Facts Southern Hospitality The List Official Who’s Who The Map Islands Robb with Two b’s Job Security Rudy Style Long View A Wild Grouse Chase Gary and Loretta The Fossil Lost and Found The Room Again Peerless Pines Liberation Station Club Members Only Shipshape Well, That’s New I’ll Be Amazing Grays A Proper Burial Message The Eagle Has Landed Dom’s Water Safety First Trip To the Top Worst of the Worst Year of Our Fjord Movin’ Out (Graham’s Song) Friday Hole in Your Bucket Sugarland Moss Saturday Sneaking Around Let’s Go! Nurse’s Station The