The Someday Birds

By: Sally J. Pla

Narrated by: James Fouhey

The Someday Birds is a debut middle grade novel perfect for fans of Counting by 7s and Fish in a Tree, filled with humor, heart, and chicken nuggets.

Charlie's perfectly ordinary life has been unraveling ever since his war journalist father was injured in Afghanistan.

When his father heads from California to Virginia for medical treatment, Charlie reluctantly travels cross-country with his boy-crazy sister, unruly brothers, and a mysterious new family friend. He decides that if he can spot all the birds that he and his father were hoping to see someday along the way, then everything might just turn out okay.

Debut author Sally J. Pla has written a tale that is equal parts madcap road trip, coming-of-age story for an autistic boy who feels he doesn't understand the world, and an uplifting portrait of a family overcoming a crisis.

©2017 Sally J. Pla (P)2020 Tantor

Amazing

It’s just the feeling you want in a book, sadness happiness and mixed emotions and a great story overall. Thank you for this book

Neurodiversity affirming

Very true to what it can feel like to be autistic. The story was good too. I liked the narrator’s voice for the main character, except that their prosody sounded like a stereotype of an autistic person.