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Loading... The Fledgling (Hall Family Chronicles, Book 4) (original 1980; edition 2002)by Jane Langton (Author), Erik Blegvad (Illustrator)
Work InformationThe Fledgling by Jane Langton (1980)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. As I read the book, I kept thinking that I may have felt very differently about this book had I read it as a child. At times I really enjoyed her use of language and her writing style. Other than that, the characters weren't all that interesting, or frankly, all that like-able to me, and I wanted to get drawn into the story of little Georgie and her Goose Prince, but it never quite happened. no reviews | add a review
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Georgie's fondest hope, to be able to fly, is fleetingly fulfilled when she is befriended by a Canada goose. No library descriptions found. |
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So when her step cousins Eleanor and Eddy tell her that she can't fly, Georgie doesn't get discouraged -- she just tries harder. She feels a peculiar lightness when she leaps from the top of the staircase, and is even more certain of her seemingly impossible ability when she jumps from the porch and soars to the rooftop before landing safely on the ground. And now that a mysterious Canada goose is visiting Georgie's window on a nightly basis, the Hall family begins to wonder just what Georgie is capable of....