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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). The authors note that while the baby bluebirds are intentionally portrayed as caricatures, the subject birds are carefully researched. Hurricane Hugo rips through the island in 1989.