Flyaway /
Lucy Christopher.
- 1st American ed.
- New York : Chicken House, 2011.
- 328 p. ; 22 cm.
Parents' Choice, January 2011 School Library Journal starred, December 2011 Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2012 Booklist starred, August 2011 Publisher's Weekly, September 2011 Horn Book, April 2012 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), December 2011 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2011 Kirkus Review, September 2011
While her father is in the hospital, thirteen-year-old Isla befriends Harry, the first boy to understand her love of the outdoors, and as Harry's health fails, Isla tries to help both him and the lone swan they see, struggling to fly, on the lake outside Harry's window.
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Sick--Fiction. Hospitals--Fiction. Swans--Fiction. Wildlife conservation--Fiction. Family life--Fiction. Father-daughter relationship--Fiction.