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OLDER FICTION
Whitman, Sylvia

The Milk of Birds

371 pp. | Atheneum | April, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4424-4682-3 $16.99
(2) YA In alternating first-person accounts and letters, fifteen-year-old Nawra, living in a camp in the Sudan, and K. C., a fourteen-year-old Virginia girl struggling with learning disabilities, find strength in their pen-pal friendship. Nawra's letters are embroidered with Sudanese proverbs; despite believing she is "dumb," K. C. invests her letters with curiosity and spirit. These two correspondents make readers long to learn more about them.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2013

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