Just outside of downtown Minneapolis, follow the sound of crowning and you will find Mary Britton Clouses's Chicken Run Rescue. Over the years, Mary and her husband have given hundreds of homeless birds a safe place to rest until they can be adopted by caring families. Each chicken has a story to share, and the author (who adopted her own chicken) has crafted a spare, moving and at times humorous text that will open young readers' eyes and also inspire them to help all creatures great and small.

 

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company .

Christine Heppermann has been a reviewer and columnist for the Horn Book magazine since 1996. She used to work for Wild Rumpus Bookstore, where she especially enjoyed leading a middle grade book club, feeding mealworms to the salamander, and taking Elmo the iguana out on a leash for a walk. She lives with her family, and pet chickens, in New York.