![]() ![]() It also helps Laurence gain entrée to a group of rocket scientists who adopt him as an unofficial mascot. He finds it useful for avoiding bullies and boring dinner table conversations with parents. When she emerges, she’s lost the ability to understand the speech of animals: Her memory of the event becomes dreamlike but never completely recedes.Īt the same time, a boy named Laurence Armstead is developing his own precocious gifts - he invents a time machine that only propels him forward two seconds. The sparrow takes her to a tree that resembles Yggdrasil, the World Tree of ancient Norse myth, where she is asked the baffling Endless Question: “Is a tree red?” Before Patricia can answer, her father finds her and locks her in her room for a week. As a child, Patricia Delfine wanders off into the woods, comes across an injured sparrow and learns that she can talk to animals. “All the Birds in the Sky” begins as a somewhat conventional young adult novel. ![]()
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