{"product_id":"blackbird-fly-hardcover","title":"Blackbird Fly - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErin Entrada Kelly\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBetsy Peterschmidt\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFuture rock star or friendless misfit? That's no choice at all. In this acclaimed novel by Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, twelve-year-old Apple grapples with being different; with friends and backstabbers; and with following her dreams.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e called \u003cem\u003eBlackbird Fly \u003c\/em\u003e\"a true triumph,\" and the\u003cem\u003e Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e said, \"Apple soars like the eponymous blackbird of her favorite Beatles song.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApple has always felt a little different from her classmates. She and her mother moved to Louisiana from the Philippines when she was little, and her mother still cooks Filipino foods and chastises Apple for becoming \"too American.\" When Apple's friends turn on her and everything about her life starts to seem weird and embarrassing, Apple turns to music. If she can just save enough to buy a guitar and learn to play, maybe she can change herself. It might be the music that saves her . . . or it might be her two new friends, who show her how special she really is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErin Entrada Kelly deftly brings Apple's conflicted emotions to the page in her debut novel about family, friendship, popularity, and going your own way. \"A must-read for those kids cringing at their own identities.\"--\u003cem\u003eBulletin of the Center for Children's Books.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwelve-year-old Apple Yengko believes that there are at least three interesting facts about every person on Earth. Unfortunately, her three IFs make her an outcast in Chapel Spring Middle School in Chapel Spring, Louisiana: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eShe has slanted eyes\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShe has a weird Filipino nickname\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e. . . and a weird mother\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Apple is voted the third-ugliest girl in school, her life quickly falls apart. The boys bark at her in the halls and a rumor spreads that she eats dogs for dinner. Music is her only escape. All she needs is enough money to buy a guitar, and then she'll be able to change herself and her life forever. So what if her mother doesn't understand and thinks she's becoming too American? So what if her supposed best friends turn the other way . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt might be the Beatles and their music who save Apple, or Mr. Z (Chapel Spring Middle's awesome music teacher)--or it could be two unexpected friends who show her that standing out in a crowd is better than getting lost in it.​\u003c\/p\u003e--Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwelve-year-old Apple Yengko believes that there are at least three interesting facts about every person on Earth. Unfortunately, her three IFs make her an outcast in Chapel Spring Middle School in Chapel Spring, Louisiana: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eShe has slanted eyes\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShe has a weird Filipino nickname\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e. . . and a weird mother\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Apple is voted the third-ugliest girl in school, her life quickly falls apart. The boys bark at her in the halls and a rumor spreads that she eats dogs for dinner. Music is her only escape. All she needs is enough money to buy a guitar, and then she'll be able to change herself and her life forever. So what if her mother doesn't understand and thinks she's becoming too American? 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