She has no idea how to care for chickens or animals, but she is determined to learn. Her mom makes her wear a whistle that was meant to be blown for protection in the city, but seems pretty useless and silly in the country (who’s going to hear it?). I also loved that she’s clearly a city kid uprooted and plopped into a rural community. I liked that that element was woven into the story (although I’m not sure Kelly Jones is Latina so I’m not sure if that detracts from this part of the story) especially since I have a number of kids with mixed backgrounds including Latino/a.
Race comes up in the book since Sophie is half white, half Latina and she moves to a small California town from the greater LA area. 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. 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.
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