"'Stop it!' I yelled. My heart was thumping. 'You're killing that bird!'" - Codi Noline, Animal Dreams Those are the words of Codi Noline, a brave heroine with her mind set on rescuing a beautiful but defenseless peacock from horrible torture by a group of demented children on her first day back in her hometown of Grace, Arizona. Much to Codi's chagrin, the bird turns out to be just a piñata, spilling …showed first 75 words of 1964 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1964 total…long run, that's what you've got." (Kingsolver, 1990) Cary - 7 Works Cited DeMarr, Mary Jean. Barbara Kingsolver: A Critical Companion. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999. Epstein, Robin. "Barbara Kingsolver." The Progressive. Feb 1996. 33-37. Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal Dreams. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1990. Lyall, Sarah. "At Lunch With Barbara Kingsolver: Termites Are Interesting But Books Sell Better." The New York Times. 01 Sep 1993. Smiley, Jane. "In One Small Town, the Weight of the World." The New York Times. 02 Sep 1990.