The Someday Birds

Dolly Gray Award - Goodreads Choice Award - JLG Selection – Bank Street, NYPL, LAPL Best Book – Starred Reviews - State Lists. Charlie's life has been unraveling since his war journalist father was injured. Now he must travel cross-country to see him. So Charlie decides that, along the way, if he can spot all the birds that his dad had been hoping to see with him someday . . . then maybe, just maybe, Dad will be okay. "Equal parts madcap road trip, coming-of-age story for a highly unusual boy, and uplifting portrait of a family overcoming a crisis."