The Chicken Dance

About this book

On his birthday Don Schmidt spends the day waiting patiently for his big surprisea cake presents maybe a Chinese clown . . . . But instead his batty parents get into their monthly argument. This time its because his mother has to feed the chickens. It ends with her shouting the same thing as always about their Louisiana chicken farm: "I hate it here!" What follows is Dons journey from obscurity to fame and back again when he becomes the youngest kid to ever win the Horse Island Dairy Festival chicken-judging contest. Gradually his mom notices that something strange is going oneveryone knows her son!but once she realizes that Don has become the town celebrity she sees that there may be benefits to living on a chicken farm. What she doesnt seem to see are the benefits of having a son like Don. For Don the contest is the beginning of a big big adventure. It involves trips to New Orleans and Baton Rouge fair weather friends a missing sister and one big secret. Readers will cheer for Don who goes out of his way to see the good in everything.