Bluebird
By Emmett Knowlton
On his 5th birthday, his grandfather gives him a book about birds. He likes books and he likes birds and unlike his brother who is 9 he does not like sports and he does not like climbing trees. Last summer when he was 4 he fell out of a tree and hurt himself so badly that he had to spend two nights in the hospital. But now he is 5 and after he blows out the candles his grandfather tells him to memorize the names of all the birds in the book because doing so will bring him good luck. He doesn’t know how to read but he loves his grandfather, so he promises him that he will.
One day after school he finds a dead bird in his front yard. It is fall and the sun has started setting early, casting
