The silent spillbills

By Tor Seidler

Subjects: Stuttering in adolescence, Birds, Aeronautics, fiction, Wildlife conservation, fiction, Airplanes, fiction, Stuttering, Birds, fiction, Grandfathers, Connecticut, fiction, Bird watching, Schools, fiction, Wildlife conservation, Fiction, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Airplanes

Description: Thirteen-year-old bird-lover Katerina, plagued by stuttering and lack of self-confidence, stands up to her cantankerous grandfather, head of Farnsworth Aeronautics, to save the unique Connecticut wetland birds which inspired the design of the latest Farnsworth airplane.