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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.