Washoe County Library System

"Az is one of the Airborn. With a stretch and a beat of their eight-foot wings his people travel effortlessly around their cities, perched high above the clouds. It's a life of east and airy beauty-- only Az is a wingless oddity, and in his glorious world of freedom and flight, he is a painful and isolated exception. And then one day he is picked out for a job. A job on the ground"--Page 4 of cover.