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Language
English
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Description
"Pigeons coo, peck and nest all over the world, yet most of us treat them with indifference or disdain. So Rosemary Mosco, a bird-lover, science communicator, writer, and cartoonist (and co-author of The Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid) is here to give the pigeon's image a makeover, and to help every town- and city-dweller get closer to nature by discovering the joys of birding through pigeon-watching. Fact: Pigeons...
Author
Series
Pigeon (Picture books) volume 5
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pigeon is very angry when the duckling gets a cookie just by asking politely.
4) Wringer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
Author
Series
Pigeon (Picture books) volume 8
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Pigeon experiences an emotional loop-de-loop as he anticipates his turn to ride the roller coster.
6) Grey Cloud
Author
Publisher
Four Winds Press
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
Tom resents his family's move to the country until he meets a strange, quiet boy who raises racing pigeons.
Author
Series
Pigeon (Picture books) volume 9
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The pigeon really, really wants to drive Santa's sleigh, but reconsiders once he learns how it flies.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While Rebecca Rubin helps her building's ailing superintendent take care of his homing pigeons, she puzzles over what to do with the Christmas centerpiece her teacher insisted she make but which has no place in her Jewish home.
Author
Series
Pigeon (Picture books) volume 7
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The pigeon must go to school, but frets about math, learning the alphabet, heavy backpacks, and what the teacher and other birds will think of him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As London is strafed by German aircraft, the little village of Pipley in Hertfordshire bustles along much as it always has. Olive Bright fills her days by helping at her father's veterinary practice and tending to her racing pigeons, hoping that the National Pigeon Service will enlist Bright Lofts' expertise, and use their highly trained birds to deliver critical, coded messages for His Majesty's Forces. The strangers who arrive in Pipley are not...
12) Valiant
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Valiant and his feathered friends take to the sky to prove as they work their way into the Royal Air Force during World War II. Together this rag-tag squadron of carrier pigeons engages in an aerial adventures at a spitfire pace. From the first bumbling day of basic training through the final feather-raising mission, the flock of friends swoop their way toward victory. How, against the odds and an evil German falcon, Valiant is called upon for a very...
13) A valiant deceit
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Young pigeoneer Olive Bright has been conscripted, with her racing birds, to aid the fight against the Nazis. It's not the daring role she'd envisioned for herself, but her quiet little English village is not nearly as sheltered as she imagined... Returning to Pipley following her FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) training, Olive is eager to step up her involvement in the war effort. Her pigeons are being conscripted to aid the Belgian resistance,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It is September 1940-a year into the war-and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan-loyal, intelligent, beautiful-but none more so than Duchess. Hatched from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While bumbling PI Percival Smidgely tries to find missing pig Mercy Watson, a trio of clever neighborhood sleuths follow a trail of hoof prints - and a delicious aroma - to recover their porcine wonder, in this uproariously funny, extra-special series finale.
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