The air swirled with life, in a humming, darting circulation that shifted, expanded, and contracted. One moment it was a wreath of billowing wheat, the next a kind of giant halo that swelled and fragmented with tiny, soundless explosions. Hummingbirds! Dozens of them! . . . and at least half of them were gyrating like a tiny dust devil directly around his sister's head. Restricted by a painful hip disease, Kevin Weaver finds himself drawn to the evanescent, free-spirited hummingbirds that congregate around his family's summer cabin. Constantly pulled first one way, then another, by a worried, protective mother and a father anxious for his son to "be a man," Kevin chafes at their bickerings, but feels a strangely comforting fascination with the tiniest of birds—and even adopts one special male he calls Starfire. With the threat of corrective surgery hovering over him, twelve-year-old Kevin struggles to conquer his fear—of life and death—find God, and find his place in a world that rarely seems to be the same from one day to the next. In an enchanting, powerfully written novel, author Gordon T. Allred weaves Kevin's problems intricately with Starfire's. The tiny bird battles a rattlesnake in a heart-stopping clash between a David and a Goliath—yet falls prey to the most delicate of nature's creations, a spiderweb. Kevin longs to protect the tiny Starfire—indeed, longs for a safe harbor of his own. Throughout the fleeting summer, Kevin grows close to Lije Marriott, a remarkable old man of ninety, who jogs and wrestles, who seems to know something about nearly everything, and who steadily proves his love for the boy and the hummingbird. In the breathtaking, emotional final chapters, Kevin learns and accepts some painful yet inspiring facts of life. Starfire tells a most engrossing story, yet simultaneously imparts a wisdom, a warmth, and a wealth of truth.