{"id":1921,"date":"2007-05-01T14:51:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T18:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:53:55","slug":"swordbird-by-nancy-yi-fan-illustrations-by-mark-zug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/swordbird-by-nancy-yi-fan-illustrations-by-mark-zug\/","title":{"rendered":"Swordbird by Nancy Yi Fan, illustrations by Mark Zug [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/05\/Swordbird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-30314\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/05\/Swordbird.jpg\" alt=\"Swordbird\" width=\"429\" height=\"648\" \/><\/a>She\u2019s 13 now, but the exceedingly precocious Nancy Yi Fan was just 11 when she first wrote this fantasy adventure about warring cardinals and blue jays who must unite against the evil hawk who has descended upon their once-peaceful Stone-Run Forest. The weaker birds are no match for the tyrannical hawk and together must enlist the aid of the mythical Swordbird in hopes of restoring order and peace to their troubled home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: &#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2007<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/swordbird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13873\" title=\"Swordbird\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/swordbird.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a>She\u2019s 13 now, but the exceedingly precocious Nancy Yi Fan was just 11 when she first wrote this fantasy adventure about warring cardinals and blue jays who must unite against the evil hawk who has descended upon their once-peaceful Stone-Run Forest. The weaker birds are no match for the tyrannical hawk and together must enlist the aid of the mythical Swordbird in hopes of restoring order and peace to their troubled home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: &#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2007<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,30,60,6535],"tags":[32,1968,6608,3429,3430,64,3431,45],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chinese-american","category-fiction","category-middle-grade-readers","category-nonethnic-specific","category-repost","tag-adventure","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-mark-zug","tag-nancy-yi-fan","tag-pets-animals","tag-swordbird","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Swordbird by Nancy Yi Fan, illustrations by Mark Zug [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/swordbird-by-nancy-yi-fan-illustrations-by-mark-zug\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Swordbird by Nancy Yi Fan, illustrations by Mark Zug [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"She\u2019s 13 now, but the exceedingly precocious Nancy Yi Fan was just 11 when she first wrote this fantasy adventure about warring cardinals and blue jays who must unite against the evil hawk who has descended upon their once-peaceful Stone-Run Forest. 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