Carol C S Gilbert

Go Outside Carol C S Gilbert

Thirty years before the story opens, a Midwestern American city underwent a "reversal" of urban sprawl: everyone living in the suburbs moved back to the under-populated city center, leaving the suburbs to revert to Nature. Matt has grown up knowing only densely packed buildings and barriers surrounding the city to keep Nature safe from people. Matt has become an enthusiastic birder by observing the limited number of bird species in the city, but he longs to go outside the barriers and expand his knowledge of birds in the old, now-wild suburbs. He and his friend, Benny, sneak outside the city to find birds but discover much more than that.