Sophie Sparrow Wants to Be a Flamingo

"If you could be any bird in the world, what would you be?" asked Sullivan, Sophie's best friend.

For Sophie Sparrow, that is an easy question. She would be a beautiful flamingo named Pinky with a long, graceful neck and feathers the color of pink cotton candy, and she would eat delicious shrimp ice-cream sundaes. Luckily, Miss Sapphire, the new, young Blue Jay who moved into the penthouse suite on Maple Lane, had magical powers.

''Hold the pink feather, and say the magic words, Bingo, Lingo,...