Sparrow Being Sparrow
Book description
An endearingly energetic fourth grader takes on the big job of finding new homes for her neighbor's seven cats in this heartwarming illustrated middle grade novel for fans of Patricia MacLachlan and Sharon Creech.
Sparrow Robinson loves to dance and leap around. She loves cats. She has a million questions…
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1 author picked Sparrow Being Sparrow as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As a public school teacher, I worked with neurodivergent children.The hero of this middle grade novel, Sparrow, is such a child: spirited, obstinate, an outside-the-box thinker. She often gets “carried away.”
This beautiful book, set in my own state of Maine, follows Sparrow on her quest to find homes for the many cats her neighbor has to leave behind, when she beaks a hip and goes into a nursing home. This doesn’t sound like a scintillating premise… but it is.
In finding homes for each cat, Sparrow finds one for herself, in this her new neighborhood and school. Donovan…
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