The Chicken Dance

Jacques Couvillon

Jun 2013 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Welcome to Horse Island, where knowing about chickens is the key to popularity and eggs are more valuable than money. This is where eleven-year-old Don Schmidt lives on a chicken farm with his parents. He is sort of unpopular, both at home (where his mother refers nonstop to his talented, dancing, dead sister, Dawn) and at school (where the other kids call him “new kid” even though he's been at the school for several years).With nowhere else to turn, Don begins a friendship with the chickens that live outside his window on the family's farm.

Then one day, Don enters the chicken-judging contest at the local dairy festival and becomes the youngest person in history ever to win. This spurs a dramatic chain of events that makes Don the most popular kid in town. But it also leads him to discover that his parents have been hiding family secrets.

Jacques Couvillon has created a refreshing story with a character who is charming, sincere, and just so funny. The Chicken Dance is an entertaining page-turner that readers will not want to put down.

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Jacques Couvillon was raised in Cow Island, Louisiana, where he grew up the youngest of eight siblings. In The Chicken Dance, Horse Island is inspired by Cow Island, but not actually based on it. In high school, Jacques was a member of Future Farmers of America, where he and his friends would compete in various contests-plant judging, chicken judging, etc. But according to Jacques, “I didn't have the talent that Don did. I never placed.”

Jacques has lived in New York City, Switzerland, and Louisiana, and he loves to travel. Right now he could be anywhere.