A lonely boy is found and reared by a hermit in the wilderness of the Tennessee mountains in the 1880s.
The story begins in an Israeli military jail, where—four days after his nineteenth birthday—Jonathan stares up at the fluorescent lights of his cell and recalls the series of events that led him there.
Abbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of A White Bird Flying, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura the secret of her dream of finer things.
He and the other characters are connected by the death and transmigration of Paul's soul, the "white bird" that ties them together. Without knowing it, Thomas has followed a practice for grieving suggested in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
" With poignant symbolism and gorgeous artwork that brings Sara's story out of the past and cements it firmly in this moment in history, White Bird is sure to captivate anyone who was moved by the book Wonder or the blockbuster movie ...
The White Bird
White Bird Black Bird gives the reader a taste of what it is like to live in extreme conditions as part of a culture that is being threatened by the modern consumer society.
"The Little White Bird is a series of short episodes, including both accounts of the narrator's day-to-day activities in contemporary London and fanciful tales set in Kensington Gardens and elsewhere."--Wikipedia.
White Bird reveals a new side to Julian's story, as Julian discovers the moving and powerful tale of his grandmother, who was hidden from the Nazis as a young Jewish girl in occupied France during the Second World War.
The story of a foundling growing up in an isolated area of the Tennessee Valley in the early 1880's. Raised in fear and suspicion, the boy comes to a deeper...
The Peter Pan story began as one chapter and grew to an "elaborate book-within-a-book" of more than one hundred pages during the four years Barrie worked on The Little White Bird.The complete book has also been published under the title The ...