The Peacock

It's 1947 and Barbara not only has to deal with her father going off to Europe to help Jewish refugees, but she's left with the problem of the peacock in their yard, which terrifies her mother. So Barbara comes up with a plan to get the peacock to safety at the zoo, by herself—and all before winter.|In this partially illustrated early chapter book set in 1947, when a young girl's father is away in Europe helping refugees, she is left to deal with a stray peacock who has arrived in her family's yard, much to her mother's dismay. The girl devises a plan to earn the peacock's trust and return it to its home at the zoo.