Bird

Bird, an artistic young African American boy, expresses himself through drawing as he struggles to understand his older ... (more)

Bird, an artistic young African American boy, expresses himself through drawing as he struggles to understand his older brother's drug addiction and death, while a family friend, Uncle Son, provides guidance and understanding. (less)

This is a novel about the persistence of longing in which the twin lives of the title character blur and overlap. Bird p... (more)

This is a novel about the persistence of longing in which the twin lives of the title character blur and overlap. Bird puts her child on the bus for school and passes the day with her baby. Interwoven into the passage of the day are phone calls from a promiscuous, unmarried friend, and Bird{u2019}s recollection of the feral, reckless love she knew as a young woman. It{u2019}s a day infused with fear and longing, an exploration of the ways the past shapes and dislodges the present. (less)

Devastated by the loss of a second father, thirteen-year-old Bird follows her stepfather from Cleveland to Alabama in ho... (more)

Devastated by the loss of a second father, thirteen-year-old Bird follows her stepfather from Cleveland to Alabama in hopes of convincing him to come home, and along the way helps two boys cope with their difficulties. (less)

Bird is determined and patient. So patient that she's been hiding out behind a farmhouse for weeks waiting for Cecil. Bi... (more)

Bird is determined and patient. So patient that she's been hiding out behind a farmhouse for weeks waiting for Cecil. Bird misses her bedroom, her friends, and especially her mother. But more than that, she misses the feeling of family, and that means finding Cecil, the stepfather who abandoned them. But the longer Bird stays in Alabama, the less hidden she becomes. She's discovered by Ethan, a boy whose heart problems have kept him sheltered from kids his own age. (less)