The Absence of Sparrows

The Absence of SparrowsStranger Things meets The Stand in this haunting coming of age novel about a plague that brings the world to a halt and the boy who believes that his town's missing sparrows can save his family. In the small town of Griever's Mill, eleven year old Ben Cameron is expecting to finish off his summer of relaxing and bird watching without a hitch. But everything goes wrong when dark clouds roll in. Old Man Crandall is the first to change human one minute

Stranger Things meets The Stand in this haunting coming-of-age novel about a plague that brings the world to a halt -- and the boy who believes that his town's missing sparrows can save his family.
In the small town of Griever's Mill, eleven-year-old Ben Cameron is expecting to finish off his summer of relaxing and bird-watching without a hitch. But everything goes wrong when dark clouds roll in.
Old Man Crandall is the first to change -- human one minute and a glass statue the next. Soon it's happening across the world. Dark clouds fill the sky and, at random, people are turned into frozen versions of themselves. There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and no one knows how to stop it.
With his mom on the verge of a breakdown, and his brother intent on following the dubious plans put forth by a nameless voice on the radio, Ben must hold out hope that his town's missing sparrows will return with everyone's souls before the glass plague takes them away forever. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #454545}

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 05/05/2020
ISBN: 9780316450904
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 1.20d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 503560 / Absence of Sparrows
Reading Level: 5.9 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 10