Finch!

Finch!

Sunshine is a young finch with a big personality-and one little problem: she can't fly.

Starting school is hard enough when you're the only finch who has to walk everywhere. While the other young finches are learning to spread their wings, Sunshine is still stuck on the ground. But Sunshine isn't the kind of finch who lets one problem stop her from having fun.

When Sunshine starts school, she makes new friends, discovers exciting adventures, and learns that school can be both funny and unpredictable. She meets Melody, and the two quickly become best friends. Together, they explore their world, meet other young finches, and experience everything from Creature Studies and History to the unusual subject of Tweetinise.

Then Sunshine finds herself facing something she never expected: an eagle.

What happens next gives Sunshine the courage to do something she has been waiting to do for a long time. She learns to fly and discovers a confidence she didn't know she had.

But learning to fly isn't the only challenge Sunshine will face.

As Sunshine becomes more confident, her friendships begin to change. She and Melody have always been best friends, but Sunshine also becomes friends with Rettsa. Sunshine believes there is room in her life for more than one friend. Melody isn't so sure.

Soon Sunshine finds herself caught between two friendships. What starts as a disagreement becomes a series of hilarious pranks involving pebbles, foam, hail, swamp water, snowballs, slime, and other unexpected surprises.

Underneath all the silliness, however, Sunshine realizes something important: she misses her best friend.

Sunshine must learn that friendships aren't always easy. Friends can disagree, hurt each other's feelings, and make mistakes. Being a good friend means telling the truth, listening, trusting, forgiving, and sometimes having the courage to say you're sorry.

Along the way, Sunshine continues to experience the funny and sometimes surprising world of school, meets new characters, and finds herself in plenty of adventures. From learning about the dangers around her to playing an imaginative game filled with bosses and challenges, there is always something happening.

Finch! is a funny, imaginative early chapter book about courage, friendship, forgiveness, and finding your wings. With playful animal characters, school adventures, humor, and plenty of surprises, Sunshine's story shows young readers that growing up isn't always easy-but mistakes and disagreements don't have to be the end of a friendship.

Sometimes courage means doing something you've never been able to do before.

Sometimes it means standing up for yourself.

And sometimes it means taking the first step toward making things right.

Join Sunshine and her finch friends for an adventure filled with friendship, laughter, school days, unexpected danger, hilarious pranks, and plenty of surprises.

Because Sunshine may start the story unable to fly-but she has plenty of places to go.