Essinger, Mary.

Wounded Bird of Paradise. - 1 online resource (144 pages)

Intro -- Wounded Bird ofParadise -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 Mabelline -- 2 Flower Shop -- 3 Dinner for Two -- 4 Rosa's Bedroom -- 5 The Boy Carlos -- 6 Storm -- 7 Ros a i s I l l -- 8 Carlos Starts Work -- 9 Second Day at Work -- 10 Carlos at Home -- 11 Trouble at Work -- 12 Jemina -- 13 The Tailor's Shop -- 14 The Nursery Sheds -- 15 Carlos Buys a Tuxedo -- 16 Party -- 17 Mabelline's Club -- 18 Police Station -- 19 Supervision Order -- 20 In the Café -- 21 Plant Inspection -- 22 Perspectives -- 23 Goats -- 24 Brown's Hotel -- 25 Goodbye Carlos -- 26 Airport.

When Mabelline visits her pen pal Rosa, she quickly takes Rosa and her son Carlos to her heart, but she knows right away there is something different about the boy. When tragedy occurs, Mabelline becomes responsible for Carlos as he struggles to fit into a world based on rules he doesn't understand, and finds himself in serious trouble.

9781846420122


Asperger's syndrome -- Patients -- Fiction.
Boys -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Pen pals -- Fiction.
Tropics -- Fiction.


Electronic books.

PS3605.S68 -- W68 2004eb

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