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The Eagles Are Back
by Jean Craighead George
Illustrator: Wendell Minor
Ages: 6+
Published: 2013
Publisher: Dial/Penguin
ISBN: 978-0-8037-3771-6
Keywords: Bald Eagles, Endangered Species
In the 1950s, when the bald eagle was in danger of extinction, a ranger places an egg from Alaska in a local nest in hopes it will be adopted. Soft paintings in gouache and watercolor.