Waiting for a Warbler Grade 5 Battle of the Books 2026-27 Original title: The Stonekeeper

Original title: The Stonekeeper

Covering everything from Drake to doughnuts

Who will be the more clever bird

Each page is stylishly illustrated by James Gulliver Hancock

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Waiting for a Warbler Grade 5 Battle of the Books 2026-27 Original title: The StonekeeperIn early April, as Owen and his sister search the hickories, oaks, and dogwoods for returning birds, a huge group of birds leaves the misty mountain slopes of the Yucatan peninsula for the 600 mile flight across the Gulf of Mexico to their summer nesting grounds. One of them is a Cerulean warbler. He will lose more than half his body weight even if the journey goes well. Aloft over the vast ocean, the birds encourage each other with squeaky chirps