unusual chickens for the exceptional poultry farmer

Of course she remembers things in pretty vivid detail, but I’m willing to let that stuff slide. She feels more like writing to her dead uncle and abuela than a diary. Sophie is lonely and doesn’t have friends.

Surprisingly this is a epistolary novel which I usually find forced and irritating. Fortunately this was not just a fluff book. But to be honest I read it and will be purchasing it because CHICKENS! We have our own backyard flock and adore our girls so I’m a sucker for any book with kooky chickens in it. Okay this one checked boxes for what I’m looking for in building my chapter book collection. But when a respected local farmer tries to steal them, Sophie must find a way to keep them (and their superpowers) safe. Determined, resourceful Sophie learns to care for her flock, earning money for chicken feed, collecting eggs. But farm life gets more interesting when a cranky chicken appears and Sophie discovers the hen can move objects with the power of her little chicken brain: jam jars, the latch to her henhouse, the entirehenhouse….Īnd then more of her great-uncle’s unusual chickens come home to roost. Told in letters to Sophie's abuela, quizzes, a chicken-care correspondence course, to-do lists, and more, Unusual Chickens is a quirky, clucky classic in the making.Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer written by Kelly Jones, pictures by Katie Kathįrom Goodreads: Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown feels like a fish out of water when she and her parents move from Los Angeles to the farm they’ve inherited from a great-uncle.

And then more of her great-uncle's unusual chickens come home to roost. But farm life gets more interesting when a cranky chicken appears and Sophie discovers the hen can move objects with the power of her little chicken brain: jam jars, the latch to her henhouse, the entire henhouse. Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown feels like a fish out of water when she and her parents move from Los Angeles to the farm they've inherited from a great-uncle. Fans of Katherine Applegate and Erin Entrada Kelly will love this quirky story of a determined girl, and some extraordinary chickens.

Unusual chickens for the exceptional poultry farmer