Big Changes for Plum!, Matt Phelan
Big Changes for Plum!, Matt Phelan
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Big Changes for Plum!

Author: Matt Phelan

Narrator: Maxwell Glick

Unabridged: 1 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/28/2025


Synopsis

When the Athensville Zoo closes for renovations, it means big changes for Plum and all his animal friends. The fifth and final book in award-winning author Matt Phelan’s series about a young peacock whose adventures are funny, hopeful, and always kindhearted. A hilarious perfect for reluctant readers and animal lovers everywhere.Plum wholeheartedly believes that the Athensville Zoo is the best zoo on the planet—and the most perfect home. He and the other peacocks wander the grounds, mingling with, guiding, and delighting the visitors. He has friends in every habitat. And the Great Tree has the most comfortable branches to roost on each night. So when trucks roll in and signs are posted about the zoo undergoing a total renovation, Plum can’t think of anything worse! Where are they taking all his friends? What will happen to the Great Tree? Change is difficult, but with a little patience and help, Plum soon learns that embracing new things can make life even better.From award-winning author Matt Phelan, Big Changes for Plum! is the fifth—and final—book in the young middle grade series about Plum the peacock and his adventures at the Athensville Zoo. With short chapters, these novels are just right for newly independent readers. Each book in the series can stand alone and tackles an emotional theme relevant and accessible to the audience. A great choice for fans of the Mercy Watson and the Princess in Black series.

About Matt Phelan

Matt Phelan is the author and illustrator of several novels for young readers, including the five books in the acclaimed Plum series and Knights vs. Dinosaurs and its two sequels. Matt Phelan’s picture books include Sweater Weather, Turtle Walk, Pignic, and Druthers. He is also the creator of the graphic novels The Storm in the Barn (winner of a Scott O’Dell Award), Around the World, Bluffton, and the New York Times bestseller Snow White: A Graphic Novel. Matt Phelan lives in Pennsylvania.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephanie on March 22, 2025

The fifth and final book in this beginning chapter series about a perky, precocious peacock that lives at the Athensville Zoo. Just after Hampstead turns over the title of head peacock to Plum (who accepts only if his friend Meg can be his co-head). About the same time, Plum learns that the zoo will......more

Goodreads review by Becky on February 21, 2025

First sentence: The days of summer are long and slow, warm and comfortable. The animals of the Athensville Zoo did not have a care in the world. Summer doesn't last forever, but on this late August morning, it felt like it might never end. Premise/plot: Big Changes for Plum is the final book in the......more

Goodreads review by Tally on October 20, 2024

In the final book of Phelan's Plum series, our peacock hero has a new adventure: leadership. It had been quite some time since I read the first in the Plum series, so I revisited it as part of my review process for this title, and it is lovely to see Plum's progression in his relationship with the r......more