The House of Wings
by Betsy Byars
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Left with his grandfather until his parents are settled in Detroit, Sammy learns to respect and love the old man as they care for an injured crane together.Tags
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A short work about a young boy, allowed to do as he pleased, who finds himself left in the care of his grandfather, an eccentric who shares his home with a variety of wild fowls. The author portrays children well, creating interesting characters to inhabit her worlds.
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Betsy Cromer Byars was born in1928. She graduated from Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina. While she was in graduate school, she began writing articles for The Saturday Evening Post and Look. Byars writes novels for young people. She is an expert at tapping in to the pain of adolescence, using bits of her own experience to flavor her show more characters. She is author of more than 60 books and has won numerous awards. Her book about a 14-year-old girl and her mentally retarded brother, The Summer of the Swans (1970), won the Newberry Award as the most distinguished contribution to children's literature that year. Other books include The 18th Emergency (1973), The TV Kid (1976), and After the Goat Man (1995). Betsy Byars died on February 26,2020 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1972
- Epigraph
- For Charlie and Michael
- First words
- Sammy crouched in the metal culvert that ran beneath the highway.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Then he waded quickly and quietly through the water to catch it.
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- Languages
- 5 — Catalan, English, French, German, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 22
- ASINs
- 6
