Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer
by Jones, Kelly
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ISBN-10:
0385755554
ISBN-13:
9780385755559
Publisher:
Yearling Books
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Pub. Date:
March 2016
Pages:
224
Format:
Paperback
Ages:
8-12
Description/Notes
-Chickens -Farm life -California -Letters -Racially mixed people -Supernatural -Paranormal fiction -Epistolary fictionFans of Polly Horvath or Roald Dahl will love this quirky story of a determined girl, and some extraordinary chickens.
Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown feels like a fish out of water when she and her parents move from Los Angeles to the farm they ve inherited from a great-uncle. But farm life gets more interesting when a cranky chicken appears and Sophie discovers the hen can move objects with the power of her little chicken brain: jam jars, the latch to her henhouse, the entire henhouse....
And then more of her great-uncle s unusual chickens come home to roost. Determined, resourceful Sophie learns to care for her flock, earning money for chicken feed, collecting eggs. But when a respected local farmer tries to steal them, Sophie must find a way to keep them (and their superpowers) safe.
Told in letters to Sophie s abuela, quizzes, a chicken-care correspondence course, to-do lists, and more, Unusual Chickens is a quirky, clucky classic in the making."