Lyons Regional Library

Born with bird wings, Ava Lavender is well aware that love has long made fools of her family. When pious Nathaniel Sorrows mistakes her bird wings for angel wings, 16-year-old Ava faces the man's growing obsession, which comes to a head with the rain and feathers that fly through the air during a nighttime summer solstice celebration.

Text and pictures show and tell what wings are, what they do, and where they are found.

A wingless little bug with no name wants to be a bumblebee and begins to search for a pair of wings.

Introduces children to the different types of animals that fly, including bats, birds, fish, and more.

Ikarus Jackson, the new boy in school, is outcast because he has wings. But his resilient spirit inspires one girl to speak up for him in this thought provoking story about celebrating individuality.

Bernard isn't like other birds. His wings are impossibly long, and try as he might, he just can't seem to fly. He's left wondering what his wings are good for ... if they're even good for anything at all. But a chance encounter with a dejected orangutan leads Bernard to a surprising discovery: that maybe what makes him different is actually something to be embraced.

When TinkerBell journeys the forbidden Winter Woods, she meets a new friend named Periwinkle.