How to make a bird

By Martine Murray

Subjects: Young adult fiction, Runaways, fiction, Brothers and sisters, Mothers, fiction, Emotions, fiction, Runaways, Mothers, Fiction, Grief, Children's fiction, Family problems, Australia, fiction, Emotional problems, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Grief, fiction, Family life, fiction

Description: When seventeen-year-old, small-town Australian girl Manon Clarkeson leaves home in the middle of the night, wearing her mother's long, inappropriate red silk dress and riding her bike, she is heading for Melbourne, not exactly sure what she is looking for but not wanting to stay at home alone with her father anymore.