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Sparrow Girl

Sparrow Girl

Tanaka, Yoko
Pennypacker, Sara

Hardcover

AnimalsGeneral Juvenile Fiction

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ISBN10: 1423111877
ISBN13: 9781423111870
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: Feb 1 2009
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.34 Width: 9.32 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
Awards: Bluebonnet Awards, Georgia Children's Book Award, West Virginia Children's Book Award
A young girl's small but powerful act of heroism during China's Sparrow War teaches the value of compassion in this poetic picture book by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sara Pennypacker.

Sparrows were the enemy of farmers. According to the leader of the country, they were eating too much grain, so he announced a great Sparrow War to banish them from China.

But Ming-Li didn't want to chase the birds away. As the people of her village gathered with firecrackers and gongs to scatter the sparrows, she watched in dismay.

Quietly, she vowed to save as many sparrows as she could, one by one...

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