Summer of the Cooper's Hawk

Summer of the Cooper's Hawk Middle Grade Wildlife Adventure Written and Illustrated by L. L. Christenson Cover: Lisa Loucks Christenson Publisher:  Loucks Studios, Inc. Release: 2018 Foreign Rights, Book Club Rights Available.  A poignant story about a girl struggling to accept the love of her new stepmother. When she discovers a mother hawk raising her young alone–the hawk shows the girl the distance a mother will travel to feed, defend and raise her young: up, into, and beyond . . . their flight. Cover Blurb (subject to change on publication) When nine-year-old Mandy finds a fox holding a dead Cooper's Hawk, she sets off into the woods to find out if their babies were killed too.  Over the next weeks Mandy returns to their nest site, and observes the mother hawks' courage while tending her young––alone. When Mandy's dad is injured in a car accident she begins to understand how difficult it is for her new stepmother to take care of her and her little brother, and how she is like the m