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Lorentz, Dayna,

Of a feather / Dayna Lorentz. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2021] - 328 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

A baby great horned owl, Second, so called because his sister, First, is already out of the nest, is reluctant to hunt for himself, but when his mother is injured he is forced out into the forest; Maureen is a human girl pulled out of her grandmother's violent home and placed with an aunt--but her Aunt Beatrice is involved in falconry and runs a mews where injured raptors can heal, and it is here Maureen and Second (now called Rufus) meet and learn how to heal each other.

Ages 10 to 12. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Grades 4-6. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

ISBN: 9780358283539 0358283531

LCCN: 2019042999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Great horned owl--Juvenile fiction.
Wildlife rescue--Juvenile fiction.
Wildlife rehabilitation--Juvenile fiction.
Falconry--Juvenile fiction.
Aunts--Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Juvenile fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Bildungsromans--Juvenile fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.L8814 / Of 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 813.6 Fic