Description * Belongs alongside Holly Goldberg Sloans Counting by 7s, Cindy Baldwins Where the Watermelons Grow, and Ali Benjamins The Thing about Jellyfish. Highly recommended.School Library Journal, starred reviewAn emotional and uplifting debut about a girl named Jack and her gender creative little brother, Birdie, searching for the place where they can be their true and best selves. After their mama dies, Jack and Birdie find themselves without a place to call home. And when Mamas two brothers each try to provide onefirst sweet Uncle Carl, then gruff Uncle Patrickthe results are funny, tender, and tragic. Theyre also somehow . . . spectacular. With voices and characters that soar off the page, J. M. M. Nu...
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