Chosen one of 10 Books to Help Build Self-Confidence in Your Tweens and Teens by Working Mother MagazineSolo Hahn had always gotten good grades, had good friends, and gotten along with his parents. He wrote screenplays for fun. But when his parents uproot him and move the family from California to backwoods Oregon, Solo starts to lose track of the person he was.The only thing keeping him grounded is the small gray-and-white kitten he brought with him from home, until one night she gets outside and an owl hunts her for its dinner. When Solo tries to avenge the death of his kitten, he gets eight months of community service. Eight weeks of working at the local raptor center helping owls; the same creatures that killed his kitten in the first place.For the first time in his life, Solo is labeled a troubled kid, an at-risk youth. Stuck with a bad reputation and weeks of work with Sergeant Bird-Nerd, Solo has to find a way to survive the summer.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 2nd grade-7th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published in 2018 by Skyhorse Publishing .

Melissa Hart is the nonfiction instructor for Whidbey Island's MFA Program in Creative Writing. Her articles and essays have been published by the Washington Post , the Los Angeles Times , the Boston Globe , Writer's Digest , and many others. Melissa currently resides in Eugene, Oregon, where she can hear western screech owls in her backyard.