Noah's Birds

By Kimberley Massop and Kristin L. Pereira

Shoo is a blackbird with a bad wing.

When teased by the other blackbirds, he befriends lonely little Noah who shares his after school cookie with Shoo and they quickly become friends. When Shoo learns Noah has to move to Allentown, he decides to fly there, because he doesn’t want Noah to be alone. However, because of his bad wing, Shoo cannot fly all the way to Allentown.

He meets Sergeant Brave in Ocean City, a highly decorated rescue pigeon recently retired from the Coast Guard. Although blackbirds and pigeons are not supposed to speak to each other or get along, Sergeant Brave is inspired by Shoo's story of friendship with Noah and decides to take up the journey to find Noah and be his new friend in Allentown.

Come fly with Sergeant Brave as the pigeons continue the journey to find Noah, be his new friend and share the after school cookie.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Nov 8, 2016
• ISBN: 9781683500261

Book preview

Chapter 1

Noah lives in Bakersville with his mom and dad. Bakersville is where Noah’s school and home are, but he doesn’t have many friends at home or in school. Every day Noah walks home from school by himself. When he reaches the front steps of his building, there are many birds there. Today as Noah comes home from school and sees all the birds, he runs up the front steps, waves his arms and yells, Shoo! You birds!

He watches all the birds scatter and fly up into the sky, all except one bird, a blackbird. The blackbird doesn’t move. It just looks at him. Noah shouts again, Shoo! As the blackbird flaps his wings and takes flight, Noah notices the bird can’t fly very well. Noah watches it flap and flap, only to flutter as high as the second floor and land on a window ledge. His window ledge!

Curious, Noah runs into his building, up the staircase to his apartment and straight to his bedroom window. He finds the bird still on his window ledge. Shoo! Noah yells again, but the blackbird doesn’t move. The bird is tired and when it spreads its wings to fly, Noah