Catch That Chicken! Juvenile Nonfiction Comics & Graphic Novels Science & Nature - General (See Also Headings Under Animals or Technology) Sports & Recreation Georgia Douglas Johnson

Georgia Douglas Johnson

The only things about her that aren't average are her name (too long and princess themed)

Middle graders will laugh and cry with thirteen-year-old Vanessa Martin as she tries to be like Vanessa Williams

provoking the angst that made him question if he was any good at the “being straight” thing

Catch That Chicken! Juvenile Nonfiction Comics & Graphic Novels Science & Nature - General (See Also Headings Under Animals or Technology) Sports & Recreation Georgia Douglas JohnsonThe team behind Baby Goes to Market and B Is for Baby visit a Nigerian village for a humorous ode to childhood ingenuity. Lami is the best chicken catcher in the whole village. Her sister may be speedy at spelling, her friend fast at braiding hair, and her brother brave with bulls, but when it comes to chickens, nobody is faster or braver than Lami. That is, until the day when Lami chases a little too fast, up the baobab tree, and reaches a little too