A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home by Henry Cole

Author:Henry Cole
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: John James, Joseph - Childhood and youth, Hamsters, Children: Grades 4-6, Nature & the Natural World, Art & Architecture, Animals - Mice Hamsters Guinea Pigs etc., New Orleans (La.), Fiction, Guinea Pigs, Ages 9-12 Fiction, New Orleans (La.) - History - 19th century, Nature & the Natural World - General, Social Issues - Friendship, Social Issues, Animals, Biographical, Juvenile Fiction, United States, Social Issues - Values, Audubon, People & Places, Mason, Friendship, Mice, Family, Children's Books, General, etc, Values & Virtues, Artists, Home, Human-animal relationships, etc.
ISBN: 9780061704109
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-02-23T05:26:57.417000+00:00

Roads were pitted with gravelly ruts that had been washed out by the raging torrents of the night before. Birds began singing again as a salute to those among them that had survived the storm.

Celeste blinked. She saw the sky, heard a cardinal and a mockingbird singing morning songs. She moved to sit up, but her body ached; her fur was stiff with mud. In a cloudy blur of pain and weariness, she sank down again.

The first of the stars began to appear, bright and sharp against the clean sky. A catbird sang an evening song. The swollen creek had dwindled to a gurgling trickle. Still Celeste didn’t wake from her dreamless sleep.

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