Birdie's bargain / Katherine Paterson.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: 225 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781536215595
- 1536215597
- Children of military personnel -- Juvenile fiction
- Families of military personnel -- Juvenile fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
- Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Faith -- Juvenile fiction
- Prayer -- Christianity -- Juvenile fiction
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Juvenile fiction
- Girls -- Juvenile fiction
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | PATERSON KATHERIN | Available | 33111010608335 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | PATERSON KATHERIN | Available | 33111010762140 | ||||
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Northport Library | Children's Fiction | PATERSON KATHERIN | Available | 33111009866829 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In a poignant and unflinching new realistic novel from the Newbery Medal - winning author of Bridge to Terabithia , a ten-year-old girl makes a deal with God for her father's safe return from the Iraq War.
Birdie has questions for God. For starters, why couldn't God roll history back to September 10, 2001, and fix things--so the next day was an ordinary sunny day and not the devastating lead-in to two wars? Daddy has already been to Iraq twice. Now he's going again, and Birdie is sure he'll die. At the very least, she won't see him again for a year, and everything will not be OK. (Why do grown-ups lie?) To save money, she, Mom, and baby Billy have moved to Gran's, where shy Birdie must attend a new school, and no one but bossy Alicia Marie Suggs welcomes her. Doesn't God remember how hard it was for Birdie to make friends at Bible Camp? Counselor Ron taught about Judgment there--and the right way to believe. Has Birdie been praying wrong? Why else would God break their bargain? Readers of all faiths and backgrounds, especially children of military families, will identify with and root for the unforgettable Birdie, given inimitable voice by a master storyteller.
"When ten-year-old Birdie's dad is sent back to Iraq, she makes a deal with God to bring him home safely, while dealing with a new school where she finds it hard to make friends especially when she could use one" -- Provided by publisher.