Chasing Redbird (Google eBook)

Sharon Creech

HarperCollins, Apr 24, 2012 - Juvenile Fiction - 272 pages

It started out as an ordinary summer. But the minute thirteen-year-old Zinny covered the old, overgrown trail that ran through the woods behind her family's house, she realized that things were about to change.

Right from the start, Zinny knew that uncovering the trail would be more than just a summer project. It was her chance to finally make people notice her, and to have a place she could call her very own. But more than that, Zinny knew that the trail somehow held the key to all kinds of questions. And that -- the only way to understand her family, her Aunt Jessie's death, and herself, was to find out where it went.

From the author of the Newbery Medal-winning Walk Two Moons, here is an intricately woven tale of a young girl who sets out in search of her place in the world -- and discovers it in her own backyard.

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Review: Chasing Redbird

User Review  - Caitlin710 - Goodreads

**SPOILER ALERT** This book was great. Sharon Creech does an awesome job writing about people dealing with loss. But this book was different, it wasn't exactly what other people go through. Zinny ...

Review: Chasing Redbird

User Review  - Taya Mills - Goodreads

This book is about Zinnia Taylor, a young girl in a large family who is trying to find her place in the world. When she comes upon an old trail while exploring, she devotes her summer to clearing the ...

About the author

Sharon Creech is the author of the Newbery Medal winner Walk Two Moons and the Newbery Honor Book The Wanderer. Her other work includes the novels The Unfinished Angel, Hate That Cat, The Castle Corona, Replay, Heartbeat, Granny Torrelli Makes Soup, Ruby Holler, Love That Dog, Bloomability, Absolutely Normal Chaos, Chasing Redbird, and Pleasing the Ghost, as well as three picture books: A Fine, Fine School; Fishing in the Air; and Who's That Baby? Ms. Creech and her husband live in upstate New York.

Sharon Creech is the Newberry Medal-winning author of Walk Two Moons. Her other work includes Bloomability, Absolutely Normal Chaos, Chasing Redbird, and Pleasing the Ghost. After spending eighteen years teaching and writing in Europe, Sharon Creech and her husband have recently returned to the United States. They live near Princeton, New Jersey.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Chasing Redbird
• Author: Sharon Creech
• Illustrated by: Marc Burckhardt
• Publisher: HarperCollins, 2012
• ISBN: 0061961310, 9780061961311
• Length: 272 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational; Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Death & Dying