William Lloyd Duncan

Young teen ager bullied some as child, encountered deep tragedy at age ten. Developed very antagonistic attitude toward everybody and everything. A doctor in town became acquainted with the boy, helped place him in a better situation, and the boy became a remarkable citizen and hero.

Ivan is a particularly mean Hummingbird, showing animosity to all other birds, and carrying on an adversarial relationship with the man that provides a feeder. Follow his odyssey as this bird who weighs less than a nickel travels from Central America to the Tennessee for the summer of activity and then his journey back south. He eventually gets into a very dangerous situation. Will he recover?