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The Boy Who had Wings

Story Stats

Rating: 3
Grade Level: 4, 5, 6, 7
Page count: 5
Categories: Fantasy, Winter

Author

Jane
Yolen

Appeared in

Tales of Wonder

Story Summary

A young boy born with wings uses his power of flight only once to save his father during a bitter winter storm, then looses his wings to frostbite leaving them only a memory, or a dream, in his old age.