Mr. Persnickety likes everything neat and tidy. So a parrot with perfectly neat white feathers and a shiny beak seems just right. But when the parrot is Phoebe, watch out! Anything could happen!

"Red system" series part identified by red band on books as identified on publisher webpage for Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention System (LLI) http://www.heinemann.com/fountasandpinnell/lli_Overview.aspx.