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By Thistle By Thimble

Birdland

Maati lives in the far North where it is very cold and very dark much of the year. But after the ice breaks in the late spring, everything changes: flowers cover the earth and creatures of all shapes and sizes arrive from the south. Of all her seasonal friends, Maati looks forward to seeing a pair of northern chickadees most of all. And then, one spring, only one of the two returns and she learns where the other has gone ... to Birdland.
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