The Theory of Hummingbirds

Michelle Kadarusman

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9780702264351
• Edition: 2

A heartfelt #ownvoices story celebrating best friends, wormholes and loving who you are. Alba has been best friends with Levi since forever. They're both obsessed with hummingbirds and spend their lunchtimes hiding out in the school library. Alba normally doesn't mind that Levi's got a science theory on just about everything. But when he becomes convinced the school librarian has discovered a wormhole in her office, Alba thinks maybe he's gone too far. Then there's Cleo. That's what Alba calls her left foot, which was twisted in the wrong direction at birth and has been strapped in a brace for most of Alba's life. With the final cast about to come off, Alba is set on running in her first cross-country race. But what if Levi doesn't believe she can do it? Alba's only ever wanted to be 'normal', so why does it feel like she's losing more than Cleo and a pair of crutches?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Author Biography
• Title Page
• Imprint Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Epigraph
• Chapter One: Wormholes
• Chapter Two: Big Ideas
• Chapter Three: Lying to Strangers
• Chapter Four: Cowgirl and the Nutty Professor
• Chapter Five: Barefoot Librarians
• Chapter Six: The Edge of Reason
• Chapter Seven: The Fledgling Birder Camp
• Chapter Eight: Climbing Mount Everest
• Chapter Nine: Now You See Her!
• Chapter Ten: The High-Performance Running Shoe
• Chapter Eleven: Field Studies and Pig Braids
• Chapter Twelve: The Supply Room
• Chapter Thirteen: Google and the Cookie Monster
• Chapter Fourteen: Cleo’s Big Debut
• Chapter Fifteen: Storm Clouds
• Chapter Sixteen: The Story of the Hummingbird and the Fire
• Chapter Seventeen: A Golden Elm Celebrity
• Chapter Eighteen: Day of the Skinny Jeans
• Chapter Nineteen: Love at First Sight
• Chapter Twenty: The Break-In
• Chapter Twenty-One: The Hummingbird Theory
• Chapter Twenty-Two: The Best Place in the Universe
• Glossary of Alba’s Hummingbird Facts
• Author’s Note
• Acknowledgements