![]() ![]() ![]() From that day on, Grandpa never spoke another word. Read more hundred feet to a dried-up riverbed below. Grandpa kept talking like that, and no one paid him much notice until Bird jumped off a cliff, the cliff at the edge of the tallgrass prairie, the cliff that dropped a good couple. Bird’s thick, black hair poked out in every direction, just like the head feathers of the blackbirds, Grandpa said, and he bet that one day Bird would fly like one too. ![]() His name was John until Grandpa said he looked more like a Bird with the way he kept jumping off things, and the name stuck. 'Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brother, John. Then one night, on her birthday, she finds a mysterious boy sitting in her oak tree. Twelve-year-old Jewel never knew her brother, but all her life she has lived in his shadow. ![]()
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