How to make a bird

By Martine Murray

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