Time to Fly (Wild at Heart) [Hardcover]

Laurie Halse Anderson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2002 | Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Wild at Heart (Book 10)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. There's a flock of parrots in Zoe's backyard. No one knows where they have come from, but they aren't as big a surprise as the sight of Zoe's mother, who has just arrived from California. She wants Zoe to move back home with her. But why does leaving Amb

--This text refers to the Library Binding edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Hardcover
• Publisher: Sagebrush Education Resources (March 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0613447433
• ISBN-13: 978-0613447430
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,099,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Laurie Halse (rhymes with "waltz") Anderson pretended she was a polar bear when she walked to school through the snow of Syracuse, New York. As a little girl, she would pound away at her father's old typewriter for hours, writing newspaper columns, stories, and letters. She loved watching her father write poetry and reading the funnies on the floor of his office. Laurie fell in love with words when her second-grade teacher taught her how to write haiku. Her favorite book is the dictionary, which is a good thing because she is a terrible speller. She tried to read every book in her school library, a heavenly place. She loves librarians! One of her favorite books was Heidi. This led to curiosity about foreign cultures. As a senior in high school, she was an American Field Service exchange student to Denmark, where she lived on a pig farm. She skipped both her prom and graduation ceremonies and had a great time there. She can still speak Danish.

Laurie Halse Anderson never intended to be an author. At Georgetown University, she majored in foreign languages and linguistics. She hit the real world with no idea of what kind of work she wanted to do. She tried everything, including cleaning banks, milking cows and working as a stockbroker. She hated all of it. Working as a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer was a slight improvement, but she eventually quit to write books. After eight long, rejection-filled years, she has finally qualified as an overnight success.

Laurie's books for children and teenagers have attracted a lot of attention. Her first novel, Speak, was a National Book Award Finalist, a Michael L. Printz Honor book, a New York Times bestseller, and an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults. Publisher's Weekly, called Speak "a stunning first novel," in which Ms. Anderson "uses keen observations and vivid imagery to pull readers into the head of an isolated teenager." Speak has been translated into sixteen foreign languages, including Chinese and Catalan. In 2005, the movie version was released. In addition to novels, Laurie writes chapter books for elementary age children and picture books for the pre-school set. She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award, given by the American Library Association for significant and lasting achievement in young adult literature, in 2009.

Laurie lives in Northern New York with her husband, Scot, and their dog, Kezzie. Scot designed and built a writing cottage for Laurie, where she writes daily. Along with writing, she enjoys gardening, running and hanging with her family.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another good Wild At Heart book!!, June 9, 2002

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kelly (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wild at Heart (Time to Fly, 10) (Paperback)

I really liked this book. It is #10 in the series. I have all the Wild At Heart books and this one is one of my favorites. I don't know why it only has 3 stars because Laurie Halse Anderson has a way of writing that keeps you reading until the very last page. And this book is no exeption.
But... In this book thousands of parrots are being brought to North America to be sold on the Black Market. When one of the smugglers van wrecks, the birds fly loose in Zoe's town. Most of the birds die but Zoe and Dr. Mac save some. Then Zoe's mom shows up to take her "home". A must read for Wild At Heart Fans.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Future Vet's Review, December 5, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Wild at Heart (Time to Fly, 10) (Paperback)

Time to Fly
By Laurie Halse Anderson

This book is about a girl named Zoe. She lives in Ambler, Pennsylvania with her grandma who is a veterinarian. Her mom is an actor that lives in New York. She and her friends Brenna, David, Maggie, and Sunita are vet volunteers at Wild at Heart. They do everything they can to save animals.
Zoe is now trying to help a parrot that has gone loose. She names him E.T. At the same time she is battling with her mom about moving to New York. She doesn't know what to do. Should she stay in Ambler? What will happen to E.T.?
I liked this book because I love animals and want to be a veterinarian. It was also a very heart warming story about saving an animal's life. I hope you will like it too!

3.0 out of 5 stars Time to Fly- a review, May 13, 2002

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Shannon Driscoll - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wild at Heart (Time to Fly, 10) (Paperback)

Time To Fly is number 10 in the series Wild at Heart. Its main character is a girl named Zoe. In the book there are Parrots being smuggled from South America to the Untied States for money. A truck full of birds tips over and releces hundreds into Zoe's little hometown(unfortunatly a large portion of the birds die). But thankfully Zoe is on the case!! Then Zoe's mom shows up with some great news or is it not really so great after all?