Ben and the Bird Girl: A Serial Chapter Book Series #1 (The Bird Club) - Softcover

Butler, P. K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982034288 ISBN 13: 9780982034286

Publisher: Pinchey House Press, 2024

Synopsis

Third grader Ben meets a “bird girl” in book one of this serial chapter book series of seven books.

She’s a crow most of the time and at others a girl. The Bird Girl invites Ben to join her Bird Club and other club members in a risky (but fun) mission to cross The Impossible Divide, a place that separates people from animals.

In Book One of this seven-book serial, Ben joins the Bird Club just as its oldest member, a fifth grader, prepares to quit it. Ursula doesn't want to leave the club, but she'll soon turn ten. And the Bird Girl (who calls herself Benita) becomes invisible to anyone over ten. Ursula, Benita, and the club members prepare for this sad occasion with a special club meeting. Unknown to them, an unseen stranger also attends, one who is about to change everything they know.

Other books in The Bird Club, a single extended story told through seven books

Book 2: The Owl Boy. 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!

Book 3: The Fickle Forest. Owen the Owl Boy confides strange and disturbing news to members of the Bird Club: the state forest has a mind of its own!

Book 4: The Three-Cedar Secret. In the Fickle Forest, three cedar trees hold the truth behind the Bird Girl’s origin and destiny.

Book 5: The Impossible Divide. Benita the Bird Girl and Owen the Owl Boy enter a strange borderland that separates the human world from one reserved entirely for animals.

Book 6: Wild World. 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.

Book 7: Sunrise (to be released in November 2025).

About this title

About the Author

P.K. Butler is a Pennsylvania-based author of children's books, including the middle grade trilogy Of the Wing and an illustrated serial chapter book series The Bird Club. Butler earned a Master of Art degree in English from the Pennsylvania State University and thereafter taught in higher education, distance education, and adult basic education. Throughout her teaching career, she has volunteered as a literacy tutor, a teacher's assistant (grade school), and as an ESL instructor. Butler's middle grade trilogy Of the Wing has earned editorial praise, with An Odd Bird selected by BlueInk Review for its monthly showcase of "exceptional independently published titles" within Booklist Magazine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pinchey House Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0982034288
• ISBN 13: 9780982034286
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82