Copyright Date:
2024
Edition Date:
2024
Release Date:
08/06/24
Illustrator:
Swaney, Julianna,
Pages:
180 pages
New Title:
Yes
ISBN:
Publisher: 1-7730-6739-7 Perma-Bound: 0-8000-7915-9
ISBN 13:
Publisher: 978-1-7730-6739-1 Perma-Bound: 978-0-8000-7915-4
Dewey:
Fic
Dimensions:
19 cm.
Language:
English
Yasmin and I squeeze past the crooked tree that juts out into the road. It has a sign on it, too. The sign reads Caution. Protruding Tree. ...
The protruding tree is often full of parrots, but today the road is super busy. Any sensible parrot would have flown up high, as far away as possible from the crowds. Between the honking of horns and the kreech-kreech of brakes and the voices of people, I can't hear a single parrot sound. I wonder if they can even hear each other, with so much human noise.
Right then, in the middle of all this wondering, I see something. It wasn't there this morning. I'm sure of it. It is a new ad plastered across the front of the bus shelter roof. ...
As I take a closer look, I see a picture of a lake with a tree in the middle. The sky and the tree and the lake are all full of birds. Where is this place? ...
Running along the top are big, beautiful letters. Here is what they say: Bird Count India! Do Your Bit!
Excerpted from Birds on the Brain by Uma Krishnaswami
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The sequel to the award-winning Book Uncle and Me features bird lover Reeni and her quest to save her city's bird count event when the mayor tries to shut it down. Reeni is wild about birds! So when she and her best friend, Yasmin, have to pick a survey topic for a school project, asking their neighbors what they know about birds is an obvious choice. They are shocked to learn that no one -- not one single person! -- has heard about Bird Count India and the major event it is about to launch all over the country. Thousands of birdwatchers will be out counting birds as part of a global movement. Global means world, and isn't this city part of the world? How come people don't seem to care about the threats to city birds? And why is the mayor intentionally thwarting their city's bird count event? Reeni and Yasmin enlist help from Book Uncle, Reeni's family and even their school bus driver. They must get people interested in the bird count, get them to ask the city government to support the event. After all, what's good for the birds is good for all of us ... right? A funny, triumphant story about learning to advocate for both the human and non-human inhabitants of your community. Key Text Features chapters dialogue illustrations Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.