Author(s): Sara Pennypacker
No. of Pages: 32 pages
Date Published: 01 Mar 2011
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Format: Paperback | 32 pages
Dimensions: 233.68 x 243.84 x 12.7mm | 340.19g
Language: English
Publication City/Country: New York, NY, United Kingdom
Edition:
Illustrations: Frontispiece; Illustrations, color

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...