Sparrow+Girl

Sparrow Girl by Sara Pennypacker  There is a special providence in the fall of one. One day, not too long ago, war was declared. We must drive them from the land! She looked up and tried to imagine the sky empty, silent. Mother and Father were talking about the plan, too. You are not a farmer. That night she couldn't sleep. SOmething bothered her, scratching at her thoguhts like a monkey. Our Leader's plans are always perfect. The next morning a tremendous din woke her. A sea of people flooded the village, clanging gongs, crashing cymbals, beating drums, and shouting in their loudest voices. Firecrackers exploded like gunshots. Dress warmly. You will be gone all day and into the evening. She clutched his hand. He ledher away from the thundering crowd and into the orchard. PHYSICAL CLUE: firecracker <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">SHe clapped her hands over her eards and squeezed her eyes shut, but the loud, golden sparks were exploding inside her head now. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">She wanted to fly away, to someplace high and safe. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">She set out for the road, but just as she reachedit, she saw something fall from the sky like a stone. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">It's been frightened to death! We have to stop! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">He only fluttered in the air for a moment, and then fell with a soft thud on the curved clay tiles. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Together they buried him under the walnut tree. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Maybe some are still alive. We could rescue them. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Time after time, she was too late. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">She scooped it into her jacket. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">You're safe now, little friend. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Around her, people were walking home, congratulating one another. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">She filled the water cup and broke her rice cake into bits. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Look! To the west! A flock of enemies! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">They're like raindrops. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">No. They're like teardrops. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">By nightfall, she had rescued four more sparrows. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Seven, When there used to be thousands. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">But if she let them loose, the villagers would hunt them. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Someday you'll fly under the sun again. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">But when spring came, she worried. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">You are only a small girl. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">There is to be a meeting of all the farmers tomorrow. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">There will be famine. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">And then there was silence while the truth settled over them, cold anddark as a winter night. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">She held her breath- how great would her punishment be? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">She brings us a miracle!! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">She is a true farmer. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">War of 1958 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">