Chasing Redbird - Sharon Creech

The Newbery Medal-winning author of Walk Two Moons tells a story of love, loss, and understanding that will warm readers hearts everywhere. When 13-year-old Zinny Taylor discovers an overgrown path in the woods, she sets out to make it her own special place. n nIntriguing, delightful, and touching.

--School Library Journal (starred review)n nCreech's best yet. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)n nIt started out as an ordinary summer. But the minute thirteen-year-old Zinny discovered the old, overgrown trail that ran through the woods behind her family's house, she realized that things were about to change.n nIt was her chance to finally make people notice her, and to have a place she could call her very own.

But more than that, Zinny knew that the trail somehow held the key to all kinds of questions. And that the only way to understand her family, her Aunt Jessie's death, and herself, was to find out where it went.n nFrom Newbery Medal-winning author Sharon Creech comes a story of love, loss, and understanding, an intricately woven tale of a young girl who sets out in search of her place in the world--and discovers it in her own backyard.n nAn ALA Best Book for Young Adultsn