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.
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#1 AN ODD BIRD
Hawk or hummingbird, birds find Claire Belle irresistible. In fact, they seek her out as if summoned. The question is why? The eleven-year-old searches for answers with the help of two new friends: Victor, a Native American boy who rides her school bus, and Jerry, an old man who roams the forest with his pet chicken. Through their friendship, Claire awakens to an almost mythical hawk with whom she must communicate to learn the secret of her destiny as a champion for birds.
". . . a story combining ecological awareness with mysticism, the themes nicely linked by the mythic
role of birds as spiritual messengers."
—Kirkus Reviews​
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". . . the story is utterly immersive."
—BlueInk Review
#2 THE HAWK'S MESSAGE
Eleven-year-old Claire possesses an inexplicable ability to summon birds, a gift that attracts the interests of unusual companions. A wizardly old man and a mystical hawk try to teach Claire how to enter the Now, a non-place where beings connect through consciousness. Only from there can the red-tailed hawk deliver an urgent message: Birds will vanish from the Earth without her help. But to become their champion, she must first conquer all self-doubt. Claire attempts to do so in what becomes a dangerous expedition to Arkansas to find the ivory-billed woodpecker.
"A diverting combination of ecology and spirituality . . . " —Kirkus Reviews​
“Butler again excels . . . creating a palpable sense of place." —BlueInk Review
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#3 THE SHINING SWAN
In Ireland, where her great-grandmother owns a castle, Claire learns that she is the descendant of a magical race that once ruled ancient Éire. And like her 13th-century ancestor, known as the Shining Swan, Claire can summon birds. Four raptors come to her aid in a battle to protect the habitat of Irish Curlews nesting on the shores of Lough Gur, the Enchanted Lake. But Claire must also rely on the help of friends (including an eight-year-old fairy hunter) to decipher long-hidden clues for reviving the mystical power of a mythical past.
" . . . With the Irish setting for her series, Butler deepens the underlying mythic structure to reach back into the legendary past, an intriguing development for the overall story and for Claire’s coming-of-age journey. . . ."
—Kirkus Reviews
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" . . . Butler's characters are strong, original, and expressive, and . . . her consistent, rich descriptions lend their own magic. "
—BlueInk Review