Then one night, on her birthday, she finds a mysterious boy sitting in her oak tree. Twelve-year-old Jewel never knew her brother, but all her life she has lived in his shadow. That incident helped inspire her most recent novel, All That I Can Fix. Okay, not exactly meet, but I did get to cyber-chat with her (along with my online college friends’ book group). Crystal Chan watched with amazement at the exotic zoo outbreak in Zanesville, Ohio in 2011, where scores of animals-hungry lions, panthers, and tigers-ran loose around the county. That's because that very day, I was born.' Bird Book by Crystal Chan Official Publisher Page Simon & Schuster Canada LOOK WATCH About The Book About The Author Product Details Raves and Reviews Awards and Honors Resources and Downloads Bird By Crystal Chan Trade Paperback LIST PRICE 11. Last night I had the great good fortune to meet Crystal Chan, the author of the wonderful new book, Bird.

The day that Bird tried to fly, the grown-ups were out looking for him - all of them except Mom and Granny. From that day on, Grandpa never spoke another word. Grandpa kept talking like that, and no one paid him much notice until Bird jumped off a cliff, the cliff at the edge of the tallgrass prairie, the cliff that dropped a good couple hundred feet to a dried-up riverbed below. Genres Young AdultContemporaryMiddle GradeRealistic FictionFictionFamil圜hildrens. Crystal Chan Bird Hardcover Januby Crystal Chan (Author) 78 ratings Kindle 8.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 16. When she meets John, a mysterious new boy in her rural Iowan town, those secrets start to come out. Bird's thick, black hair poked out in every direction, just like the head feathers of the blackbirds, Grandpa said, and he bet that one day Bird would fly like one too. A girl who was born on the day her brother Bird died has grown up in a house of silence and secrets. His name was John until Grandpa said he looked more like a Bird with the way he kept jumping off things, and the name stuck. 'Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brother, John.

Bird by Crystal Chan