Book Descriptions
for Are You Ready to Hatch an Unusual Chicken? by Kelly Jones and Katie Kath
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
In Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer, Sophie discovered the chickens her family inherited from her late Great Uncle Jim, have special powers. Now Sophie is getting ready to oversee her first batch of eggs hatching, while her 18-year-old cousin, Luna, has come to stay with her family while she attends college nearby. It’s perhaps no surprise when the newly hatched chicks start behaving a little oddly—they’re Unusual Chickens, after all—but odd becomes dangerous when it appears one of them breathes fire. Sophie gets help from Luna even as her cousin adjusts to life with Sophie’s family and to college—her anxiety over the latter heightened at one point by an incident of racism. And Sam and Chris, the friends Sophie made after moving to town over the summer, are ready to lend a hand, but she wishes they and her new friend Xochi, the only other Latinx student at her school, got along better with one another. Biracial (Mexican/white) Sophie’s warm, loving family, supportive friends, and over-the-top chicken antics, make for a lighthearted yet substantial story, one told primarily in letters and emails, with occasional black-and-white drawings and other visual elements. (Ages 8–11)
CCBC Choices 2019. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2019. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
This laugh-out-loud sequel to Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer has EVEN MORE MAGIC CHICKENS!
Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown is finally settling into her new home and her new role as keeper of some highly unusual chickens--chickens with secret superpowers!
But the arrival of two new magical chickens for her flock and some unusual eggs to be incubated and hatched (what will their superpowers be?), plus an impending inspection from the Unusual Poultry Committee (who even knew this existed?) has Sophie feeling pretty stressed out. Her older cousin, Lupe, is coming to stay with her family, which is great--but will Lupe like chickens too? And on top of it all, Sophie's first day at her new school is rapidly approaching!
In this wildly funny and quirky novel told in letters and lists and quizzes, Sophie learns that even an exceptional poultry farmer can use some help.
Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown is finally settling into her new home and her new role as keeper of some highly unusual chickens--chickens with secret superpowers!
But the arrival of two new magical chickens for her flock and some unusual eggs to be incubated and hatched (what will their superpowers be?), plus an impending inspection from the Unusual Poultry Committee (who even knew this existed?) has Sophie feeling pretty stressed out. Her older cousin, Lupe, is coming to stay with her family, which is great--but will Lupe like chickens too? And on top of it all, Sophie's first day at her new school is rapidly approaching!
In this wildly funny and quirky novel told in letters and lists and quizzes, Sophie learns that even an exceptional poultry farmer can use some help.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
