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The Milk of Birds
by Sylvia Whitman
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Publisher: Atheneum/S&S
ISBN: 978-1-4424-4682-3
Keywords: Diversity, Disabilities, Read-Aloud, Learning Disabilities
A correspondence between a fifteen-year-old Sudanese girl in a refugee camp and a fourteen-year-old American girl with learning disabilities has surprising results.