Book Recommendations: Birding
Happy Birding!
Since school got out in May I have had a summer filled with travel (I’ve been to 26 states this summer!) and adventures! Including a recent trip to Alabama where I enjoyed birding in celebration of the Year of Alabama Birding. As I was looking for birds, I thought of a number of books for kids about birding and thought it would be fun to send out a themed book list! Even if you can’t make it to Alabama this year to try and find the over 400 species of birds that call Alabama home, your young readers can enjoy reading about birding from home!
My goal is simple: Provide book recommendations you can trust so your 8-12 year-old reader can find their next right book.
What themed book recommendation lists would you like to see in the future?
Across the Pond
When Callie and her family move from San Diego to a castle in Scotland things don’t go quite as she planned. Inspired by a journal that she finds hidden in her bedroom, Callie decides to join a birding club. Join Callie as she goes birding in Scotland!
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City Spies: Golden Gate
Join the City Spies as they head to San Francisco, California for their next mission which involves some serious bird watchers. There’s double agents, mystery, and lots of adventure in this second installment of the City Spies series!
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Hummingbird
Twelve-year-old homeschooled Olive doesn’t want her brittle bone disease to get in the way of all the adventures she wants to take. Next up on the list, attending traditional school. Then she hears whispers about a magical, wish-granting hummingbird and she becomes determined to find the hummingbird and request a wish.
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The Most Perfect Thing in the Universe
Loah Londonderry’s mother is off on a quest to find the Loah bird, long believed extinct. This leaves Loah feeling more and more like her mother cares more about birds than she does about her daughter.
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The Someday Birds
Charlie’s life has been falling apart ever since his war journalist father was injured in Afghanistan. So when his father is sent across the country to receive medical treatment and Charlie must travel to meet him, he decides to try and spot all the birds he and his dad had been hoping to spot together.
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365 Days to Alaska
Eleven-year-old Rigel Harman loves her life in off-the-grid Alaska, so she is not pleased when she finds out they’re moving to the Connecticut suburbs. Until she befriends a crow living behind her school.
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