# Sparrow Girl

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- Book: [Sparrow Girl](https://www.bookquiver.com/sara-pennypacker/sparrow-girl) ([Sparrow Girl.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sara-pennypacker/sparrow-girl.md))
- Authors: [Sara Pennypacker](https://www.bookquiver.com/sara-pennypacker), [Yoko Tanaka](https://www.bookquiver.com/yoko-tanaka)
- Publisher: little_brown_young_readers_us
- ISBN: 978-14-2311-187-0
- Published: 2009-02-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Ming-Li looked up and tried to imagine the sky silent, empty of birds. It was a terrible thought. Her country's leader had called sparrows the enemy of the farmers--they were eating too much grain, he said. He announced a great " Sparrow War" to banish them from China, but Ming-Li did not want to chase the birds away. As the people of her village gathered with firecrackers and gongs to scatter the sparrows, Ming-Li held her ears and watched in dismay. The birds were falling from the trees, frightened to death! Ming-Li knew she had to do something--even if she couldn't stop the noise. Quietly, she vowed to save as many sparrows as she could, one by one...