Bird

Description:

Twelve-year-old Jewel was born on the day her brother Bird died and lives in a house of silence and secrets, but a new boy in her Iowa town may help find the answers Jewel wants despite her Jamaican grandfather's warning that he is a "duppy," a malevolent spirit.

subjects: Children's fiction,  Superstition, fiction,  Grief, fiction,  Racially mixed people, fiction,  Iowa, fiction,  Young adult fiction,  Superstition,  Fiction,  Grief,  Family problems,  Selective mutism,  Racially-mixed people