The Wing Feather Saga by Russ Ramsey

"I've never been able to quiet the pleasurable ache between my heart and my stomach that I felt it's a boy when I read these tales," she says. "Now that I am wrapped up in the Wing Feather Saga that ache has grown so that I can hardly bear it here" She shares some of her favorite quotes from the series, including this one: "The maker's world is swollen with magic it hides in plain sight in music and water and even bumblebees"