Chasing Redbird

Creech, Sharon

 
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Synopsis

The Newbery Medal-winning author of Walk Two Moons tells a story of love, loss, and understanding that will warm readers hearts everywhere. When 13-year-old Zinny Taylor discovers an overgrown path in the woods, she sets out to make it her own special place.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Sharon Creech has written twenty books for young people and is published in over twenty languages. Her books have received awards in both the U.S. and abroad, including the Newbery Medal for Walk Two Moons, the Newbery Honor for The Wanderer, and Great Britain’s Carnegie Medal for Ruby Holler.

Before beginning her writing career, Sharon Creech taught English for fifteen years in England and Switzerland. She and her husband now live in Maine, “lured there by our grandchildren,” Creech says. “Moo was inspired by our mutual love of Maine and by our granddaughter’s involvement in a local 4-H program. We have all been enchanted with the charms of cows.”

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Thirteen-year-old Zinny Taylor lives in Bybanks, Kentucky, with too many brothers and sisters'a mess of ‘tadpoles' and ‘pumpkins' is what her uncle Nate calls them. When Zinny discovers a mysterious, overgrown trail that begins on her family farm, she thinks she's finally found a place of her own, a place she can go, away from her family, to hear herself think. But what Zinny comes to realize is that the mysteries of the trail are intertwined with her own unanswered questions and family secrets, and that the trail'and her passion to uncover it'is leading her on a journey home.

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