Book Descriptions
for The Fledgling by Jane Langton
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Little Georgie wishes to fly and with the Prince of the Geese, she does, despite the rage of two earthbound townspeople. Suspense and satire mark a fast-moving, highly-original fantasy set in Concord, Massachusetts.
CCBC Choices 1980. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1980. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
If there's one thing Georgie Hall has always been, it's determined.
So when her stepcousins Eleanor and Eddy tell her that she can't fly, Georgie doesn't get discouraged -- she just tries harder She feels a peculiar lightness when she leaps from the top of the staircase, and is even more certain of her seemingly impossible ability when she jumps from the porch and soars to the rooftop before landing safely on the ground. And now that a mysterious Canada goose is visiting Georgie's window on a nightly basis, the Hall family begins to wonder just what Georgie is capable of....
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