SOLVED. Boy looking in library, draws birds [s]

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

When did you read this? What age reader is it aimed at? What time period is it set in?

[Tab]

Okay for Now ?

When his blowhard dad loses his job, Doug Swieteck has to say so long to his friend Holling and Camillo Junior High and get used to things in stupid Marysville, NY. His oldest brother's in Vietnam, his middle brother's still a hoodlum, his mom is quiet but enduring, and his only salvation is weekly visits to the public library, where the librarian is teaching him to draw by using models from a volume of Audubon's Birds of America . Also not too bad is Lil, the daughter of the grocer who gives him a delivery job

[Viola]

Most defiantly okay for now.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Hopefully Sierra will let us know that was her book.