Family Book Club: Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd

This 2024 Sequoyah Intermediate Masterlist pick is perfect for middle grade kids and their caregivers to read together before coming to the January 20 book discussion! Please register ONCE for your family, and then let us know how many members will be participating. We do not have free copies of this book to give away, but the library system has many copies in all formats for you to check out! 

Feathers are flying as thick as snowflakes in bestselling author Natalie Lloyd's most personal book to date, a story about a girl who―armed with her trusty, snazzy wheelchairs, "Dolly Parton" and "Reba,"―refuses to let her brittle bone disease stand in the way of adventure.

Twelve-year-old homeschooled Olive is tired of being seen as “fragile” just because she has osteogenesis imperfecta (otherwise known as brittle bone disease) so she’s thrilled when she finally convinces her overprotective parents to let her attend Macklemore Elementary. Olive can’t wait to go to a traditional school and make the friends she’s always longed for, until a disastrous first day dashes her hopes of ever fitting in.

Then Olive hears whispers about a magical, wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives near Macklemore. It’ll be the solution to all her problems! If she can find the bird and prove herself worthy, the creature will make her most desperate, secret wish come true.

When it becomes clear that she can’t solve the mystery on her own, Olive teams up with some unlikely allies who help her learn the truth about the bird. And on the way, she just might learn that our fragile places lead us to the most wonderful magic of all . . .