Ming-Li looked up and tried to imagine the sky silent, empty of birds.
Quietly, she vowed to save as many sparrows as she could, one by one....
The birds were falling from the trees, frightened to death Ming-Li knew she had to do something -- even if she couldn\'t stop the noise.
As the people of her village gathered with firecrackers and gongs to scatter the sparrows, Ming-Li held her ears and watched in dismay.
He announced a great Sparrow War to banish them from China, but Ming-Li did not want to chase the birds away.
Her country\'s leader had called sparrows the enemy of the farmers--they were eating too much grain, he said.
It was a terrible thought.
Ming-Li looked up and tried to imagine the sky silent, empty of birds
