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The Summer Birds
The Summer Birds is a children's novel by British writer Penelope Farmer, published in 1962 by Chatto & Windus, and receiving a Carnegie Medal commendation.
It is the first of three books featuring the Makepeace sisters, Charlotte and Emma, These three books are sometimes known as the "Aviary Hall" books.
Background.
At the age of twenty-one, Penelope Farmer was contracted for her first collection of short stories, "The China People". Whilst working as a teacher for
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