Then one night, on her birthday, she finds a mysterious boy sitting in her oak tree. Twelve-year-old Jewel never knew her brother, but all her life she has lived in his shadow. That's because that very day, I was born.' Jewel is an easy protagonist to love smart, lonely and desperate for more from her family, each of whom is too wrapped in their own grief following her brother’s death to give. The day that Bird tried to fly, the grown-ups were out looking for him - all of them except Mom and Granny. Bird / Crystal Chan Text Publishing Melbourne 2014. Crystal Chan’s debut middle grade novel is a beautifully written story about grief and loss that was deservedly nominated for the 2016 Waterstone’s Book Award. From that day on, Grandpa never spoke another word. Download Citation Bird by Crystal Chan Daughter of a Jamaican father and her half-Mexican, half-white mother, Jewel has always felt out of place in her. Grandpa kept talking like that, and no one paid him much notice until Bird jumped off a cliff, the cliff at the edge of the tallgrass prairie, the cliff that dropped a good couple hundred feet to a dried-up riverbed below. Bird's thick, black hair poked out in every direction, just like the head feathers of the blackbirds, Grandpa said, and he bet that one day Bird would fly like one too. His name was John until Grandpa said he looked more like a Bird with the way he kept jumping off things, and the name stuck. 'Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brother, John.
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