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344 pages.
Summary: When their parents disappear in the middle of the night, a cryptic picture message from their mother leads young sisters Summer and Bird through a familiar gate and into the woods, where the sad, electric song of the tiny patchwork bird draws them into Down. In this ruined, frozen world of birds, their divided hears will lead them in very different directions in a quest toward united goals: vanquish the ravenous, bird-swallowing puppeteer; help the birds find their way back to their true home; and reveal the true heir to the swan queen's throne. (From cover)