Cañon City Public Library

A timid ten-year-old spends his summer bird watching, corresponding with a vacationing friend, and competing with his wealthy grandmother and chauffeur in a Washington D.C. boat race.

Moving to a Scottish castle allows seventh-grader Callie to escape friendship problems in San Diego, but finding new friends, even in the birding club an old journal inspires her to join, proves challenging.

Looking for a new song to sing, five little birds go on a birdwatching trip and see species from the bald eagle in Alaska to mallard ducks in Boston.

"A story about the beginning of a friendship between two different generations (a young boy and his elderly neighbor) and looks at what each has to teach the other during an outing to document a snowy owl in the woods behind their houses"--

"Nina is used to feeling like the odd one out, both at school and in her large family. But while trying to fit in at summer camp, she discovers something even more peculiar: two majestic birds have built a nest in the marsh behind an abandoned infirmary. They appear to be whooping cranes, but that's impossible--Nina is an amateur bird-watcher, and all her resources tell her that those rare birds haven't nested in Texas for over a hundred years ......