On the Road to Mr. Mineo's

  Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers

  175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10010

  Copyright © 2012 by Barbara O’Connor

  Map copyright © 2012 by Greg Call

  All rights reserved

  First hardcover edition, 2012

  eBook edition, October 2012

  mackids.com

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  O’Connor, Barbara.

  On the road to Mr. Mineo’s / Barbara O’Connor. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Sherman, a one-legged pigeon, sets everyone aflutter in a small southern town.

  ISBN 978-0-374-38002-1 (hardcover)

  ISBN 978-0-374-35656-9 (e-book)

  [1. Homing pigeons—Fiction. 2. Pigeons—Fiction. 3. South Carolina—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.O217On 2012

  [Fic]—dc23

  2011049679

  eISBN 9780374356569