An injured fledgling crow literally dropped into our lives. What to do? For it being a protected species was cause for concern. While pondering the responsibility and effort to raise it, son Tim asked the simple yet pointed question "What do you have to do anyway?" He was right and the answer will be found in this book that really just happened because of the crow, Shadow. As we reared him to adulthood and eventual return to the wild, our neighbor Mike proclaimed it: The Summer of Shadow.