Flying with Little Joe Pigeon

When ten-year-old Gregor Tarrington connects with a talking pigeon who offers to fly the boy to every capital city, how can Gregor resist? So what starts out as a homework assignment about one historical monument in Washington, D.C., leads to visiting fifty statues and learning more history than Gregor could imagine. Little Joe, the pigeon with some amazing abilities, persuades Gregor to eat the "magical" birdseed which shrinks the boy to bird-size. Then Gregor mounts Little Joe and the two begin their fifty-city tour of every capital city. But Gregor's adventure takes on a new twist when he discovers little doors on some of the statues. On the other side of the door is a switch, and when Gregor snaps it on, the statue comes to life. Once Gregor and Little Joe find out these statues are part of a national security spy network, the two realize they can help stop a major threat to the country. Now their visitation to the capital cities becomes an effort to determine the threat and who is involved. Will they succeed?