Taking wing
Orphaned animalsGrandparentsJuvenile fictionFictionDucksWorld War, 1939-1945Farm lifeChildren's fiction
With his father in the Army Air Corps and his mother diagnosed with tuberculosis, thirteen-year-old Gus sets out to incubate a nest of orphaned duck eggs on his grandparents' farm in Vermont.
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Book data: Open Library