Copyright © 2021 by Dayna Lorentz

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lorentz, Dayna, author.

Title: Of a feather / Dayna Lorentz.

Description: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. | Audience: Ages 10 to 12. | Audience: Grades 4–6. | Summary: A baby great horned owl, Second, so called because his sister, First, is already out of the nest, is reluctant to hunt for himself, but when his mother is injured he is forced out into the forest; Maureen is a human girl pulled out of her grandmother’s violent home and placed with an aunt—but her Aunt Beatrice is involved in falconry and runs a mews where injured raptors can heal, and it is here Maureen and Second (now called Rufus) meet and learn how to heal each other.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019042999 (print) | LCCN 2019043000 (ebook) | ISBN 9780358283539 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780358378587 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Great horned owl—Juvenile fiction. | Wildlife rescue—Juvenile fiction. | Wildlife rehabilitators—Juvenile fiction. | Falconry—Juvenile fiction. | Aunts—Juvenile fiction. | Brothers and sisters—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Great horned owl—Fiction. | Owls—Fiction. | Wildlife rescue—Fiction. | Falconry—Fiction. | Aunts—Fiction. | Brothers and sisters—Fiction. | LCGFT: Bildungsromans.

Classification: LCC PZ7.L8814 Of 2021 (print) | LCC PZ7.L8814 (ebook) | DDC 813.6 [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019042999

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019043000

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