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Silhouette of a sparrow, Molly Beth Griffin

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Silhouette of a sparrow

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Molly Beth Griffin

In the summer of 1926, sixteen-year-old Garnet Richardson is sent to a lake resort to escape the polio epidemic in the city. She dreams of indulging her passion for ornithology and visiting the famous new amusement park--a summer of fun before she returns for her final year of high school, after which she's expected to marry a nice boy and settle into middle-class homemaking. But in the country, Garnet finds herself under the supervision of equally oppressive guardians--her father's wealthy cousin and the matron's stuck-up daughter. Only a liberating job in a hat shop, an intense, secret relat

SILHOUETTE OF A SPARROW; Prologue: American Robin (Turdus migratorius); Black- Capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapilla); Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus); Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata); Double- Crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus); Ruby- Throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris); Snowy Egret (Egretta thula); Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea); Ring- Billed Gull (Larus delawarensis); American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos); Great Egret (Ardea alba); Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina); Red- Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis); Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)White- Breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris); Northern Oriole (Icterus galbula); Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura); Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias); Common Loon (Gavia immer); Eastern Screech Owl (Otus asio); Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis); Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula); Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos); EPILOGUE: American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis); Afterword and Acknowledgments: Fact and Fiction in Silhouette of a Sparrow; MOLLY BETH GRIFFIN; MILKWEED EDITIONS; JOIN US

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