P. K. BUTLER
The Bird Club
A Serial Chapter Book Series
Wild World #6
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Coming May 28, 2025
Owen the Owl Boy travels with Benita the Bird Girl to her home world. Though no place for kids, Wild World also calls to the Bird Club members who won't be left behind. Yet how can this undisciplined troop trek through a forest filled with hungry beasts? A way must be found if they are to locate the High Council of Crows to plead Benita's case. For only the Council can bestow upon her the ability to transform between crow and girl.
New to The Bird Club?
You'll want to check out books #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 before beginning #6. The Bird Club is a serial series, which means the story begins in book #1 and ends in #7.
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Follow Bird Club members Ben, Olivia, Jorge, and Ursula through
a serial series of seven books!
"An engaging introduction to what's sure to be a breezy fantasy series."
Kirkus Reviews
Ben and the Bird Girl #1
Third grader Ben meets a "bird girl."
She's a crow most of the time and at others a girl.
The Owl Boy #2
A "bird boy" wants to join Benita's Bird Club. She's happy until learning that he is a Great-horned Owl, an enemy of crows everywhere!
The Fickle Forest #3
Owen the Owl Boy confides strange and disturbing news to members of the Bird Club: the state forest has a mind of its own!
The Three-Cedar Secret #4
In the Fickle Forest, three cedar trees hold the truth behind the Bird Girl’s origin and destiny.
IThe Impossible Divide #5
​Benita the Bird Girl and Owen the Owl Boy enter a strange borderland that separates the human world from one reserved entirely for animals.
Meet the Author
P.K. Butler is a Pennsylvania-based author of children’s books. She earned a Master of Art degree in English from Pennsylvania State University and thereafter pursued a teaching career in higher education. She is a birder, a stargazer, a gardener for pollinators, and an avid reader. Butler, who lives in Gettysburg, is always on the lookout for new trails to explore with her two big dogs, Rosie and Henry.
On the Trail to a Trilogy
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Through the forests of Pennsylvania, on the bayous of Arkansas, and over the hills and lakes of Ireland, P. K. Butler scouted for the stories in her trilogy OF THE WING. In 2003, she began this long journey. The first two books were originally published under the titles The Legend Awakes and the Ivory-billed Obsession. However, Butler reimagined both stories while researching and writing the third. Retaining the trilogy title, she changed the book titles to what you see today. Learn more about the history of this trilogy on the web page Origin Story of a Trilogy.
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It's Always about Birds with Me
After completing and publishing my trilogy OF THE WING, I knew I must write yet another book in the series. And I began to imagine what this story might be. Then out of the blue, another idea hit! The one I am now exploring in my newest illustrated chapter book serial series, The Bird Club. Come back another time when I share some insights on how this seven-book story took root in my mind and heart.