- Library Binding: 149 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Other (April 23 1980)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0060219572
- ISBN-13: 978-0060219574
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,100,324 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A gun blast wakes Mandy one morning. Someone in her family is shooting crows again. To Mandy's father and older brothers. Crows are pests that have to be kept away from the farm's valuable strawberry crop. Even her younger brother, Drummer, can't wait until he's old enough to learn to shoot. So when Mandy finds the helpless bady crow in the woods, she feedsans tames her in secret.As mandy's bird grows, the wild crows try to lure her away. Knowing her crow must be free, but wanting to keep her as a pet, Mandy begins to realize that growing up is more complicated than she ever dreamed.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.About the Author
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in a family of naturalists, Jean George has centered her life around writing and nature. She attended Pennsylvania State University, graduating with degrees in English and science. In the 1940s she was a member of the White House press corps and a reporter for the Washington Post. Ms. George, who has written over 90 books - among them My Side of the Mountain (Dutton), a 1960 Newbery Honor Book, and its sequels On the Far Side of the Mountain and Frightful's Mountain (both Dutton) - also hikes, canoes, and makes sourdough pancakes. In 1991, Ms. George became the first winner of the School Library Media Section of the New York Library Association's Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature, which was presented to her for the "consistent superior quality" of her literary works.
Her inspiration for the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves evolved from two specific events during a summer she spent studying wolves and tundra at the Arctic Research Laboratory of Barrow, Alaska: "One was a small girl walking the vast ad lonesome tundra outside of Barrow; the other was a magnificent alpha male wolf, leader of a pack in Denali National Park ... They haunted me for a year or more, as did the words of one of the scientists at the lab: 'If there ever was any doubt in my mind that a man could live with the wolves, it is gone now. The wolves are truly gentlemen, highly social and affectionate.'"
The mother of three children, Jean George is a grandmother who has joyfully red to her grandchildren since they were born. Over the years Jean George has kept 173 pets, not including dogs and cats, in her home in Chappaqua, New York. "Most of these wild animals depart in autumn, when the sun changes their behavior and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
this book was great!!!! i loved it!!!!,
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This review is from: Cry Of The Crow, The (Paperback)
this book was sad , but yet funny!my favorite words that nina terrance said was "i got youv" and "ha ha ha , very funny , ha ha ha " this book would be great for people who want a novel thats funny and sad.
2.0 out of 5 stars
I wasn't charmed...,
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This review is from: Cry Of The Crow, The (Paperback)
I wasn't charmed by "the Cry of the Crow" like many other have. Although the book finds a smart way to teach us a lesson about the hidden effects of what we do in life, the story lacks fantasy, action, and adventure. Only Mandy and her crow are described in detail and the story would have been about the same without the other characters. Even Mandy and her crow's love for one another didn't jump out from the pages. I found it difficult to care for them in the end.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The cry of the crow,
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This review is from: Cry Of The Crow, The (Paperback)
The cry of the crow is a great book when you are looking for good education and alot about crows and there habits. Every day Mandy has to wake up to dieing crows and she feeds nina terrance a baby crow she found in the forestone day. I would really hope you would like the book.-Jacob
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