I think this fits best on a middle-school shelf. There are very mature topics in this story; disease, suicide, abuse. Written by Esther Erlich, it has Chirp as its main character, a girl who loves birds. Her mom is diagnosed with a disease and has a nervous breakdown. Chirp has a neighbor named Joey who becomes a great friend to her, but he is in a very bad situation at home himself. I liked it and was eager to see how it ended, but it certainly was not a light, uplifting book. It was heavy.. too heavy for elementary school, I believe.
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