Books with title Days of the Blackbird

In this elegant tale, Tomie dePaola imagines how the Days of the Blackbird in northern Italy came to be. Gemma and her father, the Duke of Gennaro, live in a house with a courtyard that fills with birds of all colors through the spring and summer. When the Duke falls ill at the end of summer, Gemma begs the birds to stay to raise his spirits with their song. However, as snow and fierce winds begin to swirl down on the village, the birds must fly south to stay warm, and eventually only one loyal bird remains.

In this elegant tale, Tomie dePaola imagines how the Days of the Blackbird in northern Italy came to be. Gemma and her father, the Duke of Gennaro, live in a house with a courtyard that fills with birds of all colors through the spring and summer. When the Duke falls ill at the end of summer, Gemma begs the birds to stay to raise his spirits with their song. However, as snow and fierce winds begin to swirl down on the village, the birds must fly south to stay warm, and eventually only one loyal bird remains.

When a sheep herder falls ill in the Baltics, the Blackbird Virus is loosed upon the world, and billions succumb around the globe in a year of panic, hope, and terror. Teens and kids, their bodies spared the worst of the disease, struggle to carry on, while some amongst them weave new webs of power with their own interests in mind. Gangs now run entire cities, and a much more sophisticated group, Shining Path, hides mysteriously in the wings, grabbing at levers needed to control the future of what's left of the entire country.Claire and her brother Rayn set out into this new and dangerous world from their home in Nebraska, intent on following the clues from their father’s university lab and in a stranger’s messages, which find them across the remains of the internet. They are unaware, however, that they are already being watched, unaware of the dangers which will catch up to them, turning their sojourn south into a desperate race for answers, and then for their lives. The importance of the laboratory samples they’ve come to retrieve is greater than they could have imagined, if only they, and those they befriend along the way, survive long enough to make it to the finish line.

When a sheep herder falls ill in the Baltics, the Blackbird Virus is loosed upon the world, and billions succumb around the globe in a year of panic, hope, and terror. Teens and kids, their bodies spared the worst of the disease, struggle to carry on, while some amongst them weave new webs of power with their own interests in mind. Gangs now run entire cities, and a much more sophisticated group, Shining Path, hides mysteriously in the wings, grabbing at levers needed to control the future of what's left of the entire country. Claire and her brother Rayn set out into this new and dangerous world from their home in Nebraska, intent on following the clues from their father’s university lab and in a stranger’s messages, which find them across the remains of the internet. They are unaware, however, that they are already being watched, unaware of the dangers which will catch up to them, turning their sojourn south into a desperate race for answers, and then for their lives. The importance of the laboratory samples they’ve come to retrieve is greater than they could have imagined, if only they, and those they befriend along the way, survive long enough to make it to the finish line.