Soar - Letitia B. Burton

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Résumé :
Winner of Benjamin Franklin Silver Award It's early fall in North America, and Hendrix's parents are taking off to migrate to South America - without him! Now to survive the winter and see his parents again, he and his twin brother Ryder will have to make the long, treacherous journey on their own. But the young birds are at odds right from the start, with fearless Ryder pushing cautious Hendrix at every turn. Can the brothers find their way to South America - and to respect for one another?

Biographie:
Letitia B. Burton-or B.B., as her young readers call her-believes that one of the most important things that a parent can do is read totheir child for at least 30 minutes a day. It was a practice that she started with her three children after receiving this wonderful advice from Blanche Mansfield, then head of the lower school at the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York City. It is through sharing these stories that parents and children can together travel to new and interesting worlds and develop shared compassion for the characters. Letitia continued to read to each of her children daily until they fired her, one by one, at some point when they were in middle school.She lives in Southport, Connecticut, with her husband, three children, their two bunnies, two chickens, parrot, and beloved yellow lab Shesky,whom she now reads to. She loves to kayak out to visit the ospreys on Channel Marker 7.She is committed to donating a percentage of all profits from the sales of Soar to Audubon and other organizations working to protect the environment.