In this partially illustrated early chapter book set in 1947, when a young girl's father is away in Europe helping refugees, she is left to deal with a stray peacock who has arrived in her family's yard, much to her mother's dismay. The girl devises a plan to earn the peacock's trust and return it to its home at the zoo.
- Genres
- Children'sHistorical
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Orca Book Publishers
- ISBN
- 9781459836471
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