A review by pwbalto
Bird in a Box by Andrea Davis Pinkney

5.0

The book is about three twelve-year-old black kids, two of them living in an orphanage. Each of these kids (and in fact, most of the adults in the book) has experienced grievous sorrow: abandonment, abuse, or death. But it is not a sad book - Otis, Willie and Hibernia are shaped by their experiences but not flattened by them. They're kids, after all, and susceptible to comfort. Otis finds a cat; Hibernia sings; Willie bonds with a lady at the orphanage. Otis and Willie play pranks on the mean orphanage director.

Full review on Pink Me: http://pinkme.typepad.com/pink-me/2011/02/bird-box-andrea-davis-pinkney-review.html