(Download) "Sparrow Girl" by Sara Pennypacker & Yoko Tanaka # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Sparrow Girl
- Author : Sara Pennypacker & Yoko Tanaka
- Release Date : January 04, 2016
- Genre: Animals,Books,Kids,Fiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 25811 KB
Description
Ming-Li looked up and tried to imagine the sky silent, empty of birds. It was a terrible thought. Her country's leader had called sparrows the enemy of the farmers--they were eating too much grain, he said. He announced a great "Sparrow War" to banish them from China, but Ming-Li did not want to chase the birds away.
As the people of her village gathered with firecrackers and gongs to scatter the sparrows, Ming-Li held her ears and watched in dismay. The birds were falling from the trees, frightened to death! Ming-Li knew she had to do something -- even if she couldn't stop the noise. Quietly, she vowed to save as many sparrows as she could, one by one...