Ellie McDoodle

By Ruth McNally Barshaw

Subjects: Pets, fiction, Family life, fiction, Parrots, fiction, Drawing, Families, African gray parrot, Pets, Schools, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Parrots, Schools, Family life, Drawing, fiction

Description: Ellie pet-sits for her neighbor's African grey parrot Alix, about whom she is writing a report, while her family argues over whether to get a cat or a dog, and her little brother accidentally lets Alix out of his cage, all of which is chronicled in Ellie's ever-present sketchbook.