Agnes's poorly typed responses assure Sophie that the chickens that keep turning up on the farm (including Henrietta, a small white hen with a permanent unibrow of fury) belonged to her great-uncle, from whom Sophie's father inherited the farm and who implores her to keep the chickens safe-and to be careful. To help herself adjust to life away from Los Angeles and her extended family, she writes letters to her great-uncle Jim and her beloved Abuelita, both recently deceased, and embarks on a correspondence course in poultry care with the mysterious Agnes of Redwood Farm Supply. Gr 4–6-Sophie Brown is new to farm life, new to being one of the only 'brown people' in town (the others being her mother and Gregory, the mailman), and definitely new to caring for chickens-and these are some challenging chickens. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Told in letters to Sophie’s abuela, quizzes, a chicken-care correspondence course, to-do lists, and more, Unusual Chickens is a quirky, clucky classic in the making.

But when a respected local farmer tries to steal them, Sophie must find a way to keep them (and their superpowers) safe. Determined, resourceful Sophie learns to care for her flock, earning money for chicken feed, collecting eggs. But farm life gets more interesting when a cranky chicken appears and Sophie discovers the hen can move objects with the power of her little chicken brain: jam jars, the latch to her henhouse, the entire henhouse.Īnd then more of her great-uncle’s unusual chickens come home to roost. Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown feels like a fish out of water when she and her parents move from Los Angeles to the farm they’ve inherited from a great-uncle. Fans of Polly Horvath or Roald Dahl will love this quirky story of a determined girl, and some extraordinary chickens.

Unusual chickens for the exceptional