Chasing Redbird
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4.4 • 44 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
“Intriguing, delightful, and touching.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
“Creech’s best yet.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
It started out as an ordinary summer. But the minute thirteen-year-old Zinny discovered the old, overgrown trail that ran through the woods behind her family’s house, she realized that things were about to change.
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 Newbery Medal-winning author Sharon Creech comes a story of love, loss, and understanding, 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.
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Returning to Bybanks, Ky., the setting of her Newbery-winning Walk Two Moons, Creech weaves an affecting tale of love and loss. Zinnia Taylor, the third of seven children, is shaken by her aunt's recent death; although the doctor attributed it to diabetes, the 13-year-old feels sure that a prank she pulled was the real cause. When Zinny discovers a trail at the edge of her parents' farm, she learns of its history as a 20-mile path once trodden by Indians and trappers. She spends weeks clearing weeds and digging up markers; during the course of her solitary endeavors, which are periodically interrupted by Jake Boone's attempts at wooing, Zinny not only learns of her ancestors' hardships but slowly resolves her internal conflicts. Creech's language is as fresh as the natural wonders Zinny encounters in the woods: an older sister has a temper "hotter than a boiled owl"; zinnias, which Zinny plants to commemorate her role in clearing the historic path, "are like bright sentries marching along the trail." This sturdy but sensitive tale is Creech's best yet. Ages 8-12.
Customer Reviews
Best book I ever read!😭😍🌺
I read this book in 6th grade and it was the most interesting book I have ever read. First it starts out with this girl who lives on a farm and her and her brothers and sisters have their own squrt garden. One day her and her sister fight about this weird thing and then Zinny storms off into the woods. When she's all calmed down, she finds herself walking on a trail
in her OWN backyard. The next day she asks the librarian if they have some maps from a long time ago when wagons and Indians and trappers were all around the place. Zinny gets the map and hides it in her bedroom. The next day she asks her mom and dad if she can go out into the woods to clear up/fix the trail. Her mom and dad say yes on some conditions that she has to be back at home in morning after ten days. She gets ready her stuff and goes into the woods. Ten days have passed and she has only finished 17miles of the trail. She goes back home and then she asks her mom and dad again so she.can finish up the trail. She goes back to the trail and when she's coming back she notices this 16 year old boy who supposed to like Zinny's older sister May but likes Zinny instead. So he is the one who likes her and he secretly went up on the trail with her and she never knew. And then when she goes back home she has to take care of her uncle. She takes care of her uncle when her family goes to a fair in the up scurks of town. This man's wife has died and he's very sad about it. So Zinny and her uncle go to the woods on a horse Zinny has known for a long time. TO BE CONTINUED! 🍂
Amazing(:
This book was amazing! I couldn't put it down. I read one book then gave this one a try and shockingly, I can't stop reading Any books! Deff. Read it!(:
Amazing
Great book. Very detailed, interesting. It kept me on the edge of my chair :)