Ellie McDoodle Best Friends FurEver Author:Ruth McNally Barshaw When her teacher assigns a report about animals and all the popular animals get snatched up, Ellie McDoodle is stumped for a topic. Then a neighbor asks Ellie to pet-sit her African gray parrot and it seems her problem is solved. But when the parrot flies the coop?literally?Ellie has an even bigger problem. With help from a librarian, a zookeepe... more »r, and Ellie's own pet-obsessed family, the bird comes home?but will Ellie finish her report on time?« less