Illustrated by Yoko Tanaka

Cover design or artwork by Yoko Tanaka

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On Sale: Aug 4, 2016
Page Count: 40 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 9781368004381

Ming-Li looked up and tried to imagine the sky silent, empty of birds. It was a terrible thought. Her country’s leader had called sparrows the enemy of the farmers–they were eating too much grain, he said. He announced a great “Sparrow War” to banish them from China, but Ming-Li did not want to chase the birds away.

As the people of her village gathered with firecrackers and gongs to scatter the sparrows, Ming-Li held her ears and watched in dismay. The birds were falling from the trees, frightened to death! Ming-Li knew she had to do something — even if she couldn’t stop the noise. Quietly, she vowed to save as many sparrows as she could, one by one…

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Sara Pennypacker

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Sara Pennypacker is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Pax, the Clementine series and its spinoff series, Waylon, and the acclaimed novels Summer of the Gypsy Moths and Here in the Real World. She divides her time between Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Florida. She invites you to visit her online at sarapennypacker.com.

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