The Someday Birds
Charlie, twelve, who has autism and obsessive compulsive disorder, must endure a cross-country trip with his siblings and a strange babysitter to visit their father, who will undergo brain surgery.
Charlie wishes his life could be as predictable and simple as chicken nuggets.
And it usually is. He has his clean room, his carefully organized sketchbooks and colored pencils, his safe and comfortable routines.
But his perfectly ordinary life has been unraveling ever since his war journalist father was injured in Afghanistan. Now his life consists of living with Gram, trips to the hospital, and wishing things were back to normal.
When his father heads from California to Virginia for further medical treatment, Charlie reluctantly travels cross-country with his boy-crazy sister, unruly brothers, and a mysterious new family friend. Along the way he decides that if he can spot all the birds that he and his father had been hoping to see someday, then maybe, just maybe, everything might turn out okay.
| SKU | 117222 |
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| ISBN | 9780062445773 |
| Language | English |
| Page Count | 352 |
| Product Type | Paperback Books |
| Book Type | Middle Grade Novels |
| Additional Contributor | Julie McLaughlin |
| Primary Contributor | Sally J. Pla |
| Age Groups | Ages 7 to 9, Ages 10 to 12 |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |