TY - BOOK AU - Kirchmeier,Kurt TI - The absence of sparrows SN - 9780316450928 PY - 2019/// CY - New York, Boston PB - Little, Brown and Company KW - Epidemics KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Brothers KW - Birds KW - Families KW - Family life KW - Fiction KW - Fantasy fiction KW - lcgft N2 - Eleven-year-old bird watcher Ben must defy his brother to save their father after the glass plague sweeps through their town and a voice on the radio demands the simultaneous shattering of all plague victims ER -