The Boy and The Eagle

It is the year 1945, just after the testing of the atomic bomb. An eagle flies off in the distance, trying to avoid the fallout. She gets caught in the tail end of it as she heads east toward higher ground. Silas Livingston is a thirteen-year-old boy who lives on a small farm in New Mexico along with his single mom after his father was killed during the Normandy invasion.

Silas, an adventurous lad, is climbing Eagle Mountain, a notorious place with many sharp peaks and cliffs. Few people go ...