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Author
Publisher
Newbery Award Records
Pub. Date
p1973.
Language
English
Description
"Keeping pigeons as pets is common among the young boys of Calcutta, India. But the carrier pigeon Gay-Neck is unique. In the course of his adventures, he is as much the teacher as the student of young Dhan, his owner and trainer. Gay-Neck serves heroically in World War I, carying messages, but must struggle to overcome a paralyzing fear acquired at the battlefront. How does he find the incentive to fly again? The answer offers young readers insight...
4) Wringer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Judy Carrier takes the case of her career when an elderly pigeon racer named Anthony Lucia is arrested for the murder of his lifelong enemy, Angelo Coluzzi. "Pigeon Tony," as he's known to all his South Philly neighbors, confesses he killed Coluzzi because of a vendetta begun more than fifty years ago, a blood feud that has brought great tragedy to Pigeon Tony's life. Her client's guilt, however, is only the beginning of Judy's problems. The...
11) Operation Columba: the Secret Pigeon Service : the untold story of World War II resistance in Europe
Author
Language
English
Description
The fascinating, untold story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionage operation to gather information, communicate, and coordinate with members of the Resistance to defeat the Nazis in occupied Europe during World War II. Between 1941 and 1944, British intelligence dropped sixteen thousand homing pigeons in an arc across Nazi-occupied Europe, from Bordeaux, France to Copenhagen, Denmark, as part...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
It is September 1940--a year into the war--and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan-loyal, intelligent, beautiful-but none more so than Duchess. Hatched from...
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