Silhouette of a sparrow, Molly Beth Griffin
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Silhouette of a sparrow, Molly Beth Griffin
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Silhouette of a sparrow
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
804664284
Responsibility statement
Molly Beth Griffin
Summary
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
Table Of Contents
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
Target audience
juvenile
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- Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
- Ornithology -- Fiction
- Feminism -- Fiction
- Lesbians -- Juvenile fiction
- Excelsior (Minn.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Excelsior (Minn.) - History - 20th century
- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / General
- Ornithology
- Ornithology -- Juvenile fiction
- Lesbians -- Fiction
- Literature
- Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Feminism
- Feminism -- Juvenile fiction
- Excelsior (Minn.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
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- Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
- Ornithology -- Fiction
- Feminism -- Fiction
- Lesbians -- Juvenile fiction
- Excelsior (Minn.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Excelsior (Minn.) - History - 20th century
- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / General
- Ornithology
- Ornithology -- Juvenile fiction
- Lesbians -- Fiction
- Literature
- Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Feminism
- Feminism -- Juvenile fiction
- Excelsior (Minn.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Other version1
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