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Everybody Got Their Somethin’: Bird

Author: Zetta Elliott (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Shadra Strickland (on JOMB)
Published: 2008 Lee & Low Books (on JOMB)
ISBN: 160060241X

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Delicate first-person verse and a stirring orchestration of watercolour, charcoal and ballpoint pen illustrations peek inside a young artist as he wrestles with his family’s issues of addiction and loss.

More dreams of flight on JOMB:

* My Dad’s A Birdman
* Fly, Eagle, Fly
* I Can Hear the Sun
* Tudley Didn’t Know
* Chopsticks
* Falling Angels
* Today I Will Fly!
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