Author: Betsy Byars
Narrator: Blain Fairman
Unabridged: 3 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 08/26/2008
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Family - Multigenerational
When Junior Blossom wakes up in the hospital, his last memory is of crouching on the barn roof with cloth wings tied to his arms, and of Maggie and Vern in the yard below, urging him to fly. That had been just before Junior spotted a police car approaching the farm in a cloud of dust.
Meanwhile Pap, the children's grandfather, sits in disgrace in the city jail. He was arrested for disturbing the peace after his pickup truck accidentally dumped 2,147 beer and soda cans (worth $107.35) on Spring Street.
With their mother away on the rodeo circuit, it's up to Maggie and Vern to find a way to rescue Pap and Junior. How will they solve their family problems?
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