It’s 1875 and Bird Mallon lives on Water Street in Brooklyn where you can see the huge towers of the bridge to Manhattan being built. Bird wants to be brave to help her brother and sister, and wishes a girl would move in close by. But Thomas Neary and his Pop move in upstairs. Thomas, who has a secret that only Bird suspects, turns out to be the best friend Bird could ever have. This book received the 2007 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award. Launch date: September 12, 2006.