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A young girl’s small but powerful act of heroism during China’s “Sparrow War” teaches the value of compassion in this poetic picture book by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sara Pennypacker.

Sparrows were the enemy of farmers. According to the leader of the country, they were eating too much grain, so he announced a great “Sparrow War” to banish them from China.

But Ming-Li didn’t want to chase the birds away. As the people of her village gathered with firecrackers and gongs to scatt...