Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95

by Phillip Hoose

Book Overview

B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It's time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.

He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists call him the Moonbird because, in the course of his astoundingly long lifetime, this gritty, four-ounce marathoner has flown...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374304688
• ISBN13: 9780374304683
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9