Bibliograph

Birdie, by Eileen Spinelli

Type

Label

Birdie, by Eileen Spinelli

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Ages 10-14430L, LexileDecoding demand: 81 (very high), Semantic demand: 98 (very high), Syntactic demand: 61 (high), Structure demand: 87 (very high), Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Birdie

Oclc number

702091502

Responsibility statement

by Eileen Spinelli

Summary

Twelve-year-old Birdie Briggs loves birds. They bring her comfort when she thinks about her dad, a firefighter who was killed in the line of duty. Life without her dad isn't easy, but at least Birdie still has Mom and Maymee, and her friends Nina and Martin. But then Maymee gets a boyfriend, Nina and Martin start dating, and Birdie's mom starts seeing a police officer. And suddenly not even her beloved birds can lift Birdie's spirits. Her world is changing, and Birdie wishes things would go back to how they were before. But maybe change, painful as it is, can be beautiful too

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification