Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer

<b>Fans of Katherine Applegate and Erin Entrada Kelly will love this quirky story of a determined girl and some extraordinary chickens.</b> <p/> 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. 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 <i>entire</i> henhouse.... <p/> And then more of her great-uncle's unusual chickens come home to roost. Determined resourceful Sophie learns to care for her flock earning money for chicken feed collecting eggs. But when a respected local farmer tries to steal them Sophie must find a way to keep them (and their superpowers) safe. <p/> Told in letters to Sophie's <i>abuela </i> quizzes a chicken-care correspondence course to-do lists and more <i>Unusual Chickens</i> is a quirky clucky classic in the making.