What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold

Author:Elana K. Arnold [Arnold, Elana K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Animal Shelter, Sex, Teens, Flaxen, Carolrhoda Lab, boyfriends, Brother, Family & Relationships, Religion, Social Themes, Women, Dating, Young Adult Readers, Relationships, Volunteering, Teenagers, death, Girl, Fiction, Family, Young Adult Fiction, Sexually Active, family dynamics, YA fiction, woman, Fiction-Young Adult, teen, Brothers, dysfunctional family, Elana K. Arnold, high school, Boyfriend, gender roles, Girls, Teen Abortion, teen fiction, What Girls Are Made Of, teen pregnancy
ISBN: 9781512434392
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ™
Published: 2017-03-31T23:00:00+00:00

When the egg did hatch at last, it wasn’t the cracking of the shell that was surprising, but rather what emerged.

All chicks are ugly at the very first. Their feathers, wet and thin, stick to their body. Their weird scaly legs are weak and useless. Their beaks look too large for their heads, and their wings are terrible stumps.

But within hours, the feathers dry and fluff and obscure their veiny thin skin and ugly skulls. The transformation is so quick that you can forgive the way they looked to start.

But this chick, from this egg, was different. Where there should have been wings, instead there were hands. Tiny fingers, each capped in a little bird claw. The hands flapped at the newly hatched chick’s sides, the fingers thrumming against the wet pinfeathers of the chick’s distended body.

Between the lizard-scaled legs of the tiny bird thrummed a distended orange ball—the yolk sack, improperly absorbed. It beat like a heart, like a threat, like a promise.

And the farmer, coming to check his newly hatched flock, plucked up the freakish chick at once, grasped its ugly head between his forefinger and thumb, and before the chick could peep her protest, he crushed in the thin-skulled head as easily as breaking an egg.

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