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The Parakeet Girl

by Marilyn Sadler, Roger Bollen (Illustrator)

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Emma tries several pets before she becomes best friends with her parakeet Henry, but she finds that friendship threatened when her brother Bruce buys another parakeet.

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Canonical title: The Parakeet Girl

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Genre: Children's Books
DDC/MDS: 413 — Language Linguistics Dictionaries of standard forms of languages
LCC: PZ7 .S1239 .P — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
BISAC: JUV JUVENILE FICTION Animals Birds
JUV JUVENILE FICTION Social Themes Friendship

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Languages: English
Media: Paper
ISBNs: 9

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Published: 1997
Genre: Children's Books
DDC/MDS: 413
LCC: PZ7 .S1239 .P

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