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9780786813513

The Cuckoo Child

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  • ISBN13:

    9780786813513

  • ISBN10:

    0786813512

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-07-15
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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Summary

Jack Daw loves birds--all shapes, sizes, and breeds. One day his class visits the local zoo, and Jack finds himself face-to-face with an ostrich. Nine feet tall, weighing 345 pounds, this tremendous creature immediately captures Jack's heart. That's when Jack come up with a plan. He steal an extra ostrich egg that's about to be fed to a snake, brings it home to his family's farm, and persuades a pair of geese to be its foster parents. But will this "cuckoo child" hatch? And what will Jack do if it does. Jr. A "School Library Journal" best Book of the Year.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Scrambled Eggs
7(4)
CHAPTER 2 Lydia and Wilfred
11(7)
CHAPTER 3 Then There Were Eight
18(9)
CHAPTER 4 The Swap
27(9)
CHAPTER 5 "Ol-i-ver!"
36(9)
CHAPTER 6 The Duck Pond
45(9)
CHAPTER 7 Sooner or Later
54(9)
CHAPTER 8 The Most Marvelous Goose
63(12)
CHAPTER 9 "I Only Wanted to Play!"
75(10)
CHAPTER 10 "BOOM!"
85(9)
CHAPTER 11 A Lump in the Throat
94(13)
CHAPTER 12 Speed Trials
107(11)
CHAPTER 13 Time Flies
118(6)
CHAPTER 14 And How!
124

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