Blue Birds
  • Published: 10 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780698173514
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

Blue Birds

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10 Mar 2015
Paperback
1 Mar 2016
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It’s 1587 and twelve-year-old Alis has made the long journey with her parents from England to help settle the New World, the land christened Virginia in honor of the Queen. And Alis couldn’t be happier. While the streets of London were crowded and dirty, this new land, with its trees and birds and sky, calls to Alis. Here she feels free. But the land, the island Roanoke, is also inhabited by the Roanoke tribe and tensions between them and the English are running high, soon turning deadly.
 
Amid the strife, Alis meets and befriends Kimi, a Roanoke girl about her age. Though the two don’t even speak the same language, these girls form a special bond as close as sisters, willing to risk everything for the other. Finally, Alis must make an impossible choice when her family resolves to leave the island and bloodshed behind.
 
A beautiful, tender story of friendship and the meaning of family, Caroline Starr Rose delivers another historical gem.
  • Published: 10 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780698173514
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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Praise for Blue Birds

Awards and Accolades for May B. and Caroline Starr Rose


2013 ALA Notable Children's Book
2013 Amelia Bloomer Project Title
Publisher's Weekly Spring 2012 Flying Start
2012 NM-AZ Book Awards, winner, juvenile division
American Booksellers Association 2012 Spring New Voices title
Amazon's Best Books of the Month for Kids: January 2012 selection
Junior Library Guild selection
Kids' Indie Next List: Spring 2012
State Book Lists

  • Kentucky Bluegrass Award nominee (2014)
  • Volunteer State Book Award nominee (2014-2015)
  • New York State Reading Association's Charlotte Award nominee (2014)
  • Vermont's Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Children's Book Award nominee (2013-2014)
  • Maryland Association of School Librarians' Black-Eyed Susan Award nominee (2013-2014)
  • Nebraska Golden Sower Award nominee (2013-2014)
  • Kansas Notable Book 2013
  • Missouri's Mark Twain Readers Award nominee (2014-2015)
  • West Virginia Children's Choice Book Awards nominee (2013-2014)
  • Young Hoosier Book Award (2014-2015)
  • New Mexico Battle of the Books list (2014)
  • South Carolina Book Awards nominee (2014-2015)