Sparrow Jack

Reading Level: Early Elementary School, Late Elementary School
Genre: Non Fiction
Publisher: Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Firoux 2003
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In 1868, John Bardsley, an immigrant from England, brought one thousand sparrows from his home country back to Philadelphia, where he hoped they would help save the trees from the inch-worms that were destroying them. Based on a true story.