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The Amazing Life of Birds by Gary Paulsen

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The Amazing Life of Birds

The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech

by Gary Paulsen

Narrator William Dufris

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Length 1 hour 27 minutes

Language English

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Summary
About the author

I should have seen it coming.

A long time before it came I should have known.

I was six or seven years old and there was a girl living next door named Peggy. She was a year older than me and a lot stronger and we were wrestling and she held me down.... All of a sudden it seemed there was something about girls that wasn’t all bad.

I didn’t know what it was but I should have known that this first feeling with Peggy Ollendorfer meant that down the road, later, I was in for a big surprise.

Afterward, when I was a little older, if you’d asked me what the surprise was like, I’d have said it was about like getting hit by a train.

Puberty.

YA Fiction

Three-time Newbery-winning author Gary Paulsen, hailed as "one of the best-loved writers alive" by the New York Times, divides his time between his ranch in New Mexico, a sailboat on the Pacific Ocean, and his dog-kennel in Alaska. He's written over 200 books for young people, stories that have been embraced by readers of all ages.