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Soar

by Tracy Edward Wymer

Ages: 12+

Published: 2016

Publisher: Aladdin/Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 978-1-4814-4711-9

Keywords: Tourette Syndrome, Diversity, Birds, Single Parent Families

Eddie is determined to finish first in the seventh grade Science Symposium by proving that although no one believed him, his dead father really sighted a giant golden eagle.