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Chasing Redbird
Chasing Redbird | Sharon Creech
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It started out as an ordinary summer. But the minute thirteen-year-old Zinny covered the old, overgrown trail that ran through the woods behind her family's house, she realized that things were about to change. Right from the start, Zinny knew that uncovering the trail would be more than just a summer project. It 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. From the author of the Newbery Medal-winning Walk Two Moons, here is 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.
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I can see why this was my daughter‘s favorite book when she was young. The MC is independent & adventurous, as she has always been. A delightful story.

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Blueberry
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Eggs Ooo great choice!! Love these 2 📚📚 3y
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Some of my very favorite moments of making my book podcast happen when I pick up a book for the show that I think I *probably* read as a kid but that I don‘t have especially strong feelings about, only to find that the story is basically embedded in my brain from two decades ago. Isn‘t it wild how that happens? I experienced that when I picked up Chasing Redbird for this week‘s episode and it was a total joy. Click the link in my bio to listen!

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Zinny from tagged book

🎾 🏐 🥎 Until I was 35 or so, I played tennis, volleyball, and softball. I religiously followed pro tennis. Favorites were John McEnroe and Gabriella Sabatini
🙏🏻 For audiobooks-they‘ve changed my life

#thankfulthursday @Cosmos_Moon

Cosmos_Moon_River People ask me somewhat frequently if I‘m related to a famous tennis player 😜 I just say... maybe 🤷‍♀️ 4y
Eggs You never know....😉 @Cosmos_Moon 4y
Cosmos_Moon_River We‘re fans of Roger 😇 4y
Eggs Me too 🎾 @Cosmos_Moon 4y
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OriginalCyn620 📚👍🏻📚 4y
Eggs @OriginalCyn620 😉😌 4y
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Blueberry
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 6y
vkois88 😂😂😂 That was my favorite statement ever while I worked at a book store 6y
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I love how this story starts with a bowl of spaghetti as a metaphor for life. 🍝 Sometimes it's a tangled mess, but then sometimes you experience something wonderful.

I've read a couple of Sharon Creech's picture books to my 6th graders as introduction and today they got their novels to start reading. One group is reading Chasing Redbird and the other is reading Ruby Holler, so I'm rereading as well.

#TeachersofLitsy #MsDsLibrary

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Read a book you've read before. I read Chasing Redbird in third grade and still remember lines and scenes from it. Listened to it in one go while working in the garden. I guess it made an impression on nine year old me. It's about a 13 year old girl who spends the summer uncovering/working on a 20 mile trail. She camps and works all day all by herself and only goes home every ten days so her parents know she's not dead. #readharderchallenge

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I don't really like re-reading books, but these are the only ones I will make an exception for. All of them I read as a kid several times and I revisit them every few years.
- Tails of Terror
- Digging to the Center of the Earth
- The Haunting if Hathaway House
- Chasing Redbird
- Runaway Ralph
- Pearls of Lutra
- Harry Potter
#booktober #rereads

LectricSheep Wishbone! I think of him every time I see the 🐶emoji. ❤️️ 8y
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