With the unknowing help of his pet geese, eight-year-old Jack Daw decides to raise an ostrich on his father's farm.
The Cuckoo's Child
Eleven-year-old Mia refuses to believe that her parents are not coming back after they are reported lost at sea.
After a donor match test for her brother with leukemia reveals she is not her parents' biological child, Livvy embarks on a search for her birth family that leads her to clues about her son, who disappeared eleven years earlier.
That's when Jack comes up with a plan. He steals an extra ostrich egg that's about to be fed to a snake, and brings it home to his family's farm. But will this "cuckoo child" hatch? And what will Jack do if it does? Book jacket.
A young woman comes of age and discovers her hidden past in this gripping historical mystery set in the north of England.
Eleven-year-old Mia refuses to believe that her parents are not coming back after they are reported lost at sea.
And all is well. But when his brothers and sisters sing out Too-too-weet! Too-too-weet! Cuckoo instead chirps Cuckoo! and no one can understand him. When he leaves his nest, Cuckoo still can’t find anyone who speaks his language.
Follows four young dreamers and outcasts through time and space, from 1453 Constantinople to the future, as they discover resourcefulness and hope amidst peril.
. A piercing, chilling page-turner.” —Booklist (starred review) “Nuanced and intense.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Quiet but elegant prose moves the story seamlessly from an effectively creepy horror tale to a powerful, ...
As Jack gets older, Dr. Madeleine warns him that his heart is too fragile for strong emotions: he must never, ever fall in love. And, of course, this is exactly what he does: on his tenth birthday and with head-over-heels abandon.