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(3) 4-6 Seventh grader Eddie tries to honor his deceased amateur-ornithologist father. Despite a bullying classmate and a difficult science teacher, Eddie wants to win the Science Symposium with his project on the elusive golden eagle, which his father claimed to have spotted. Eddie's straightforward first-person narrative reflects his early-adolescent emotions, while numerous references to ornithology create a unique, nature-themed realistic novel.

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