Found: Rural Slice of Life YA Fiction

I remember reading this book in Middle School, so I'm not exactly sure its YA. It was a relatively short book. If I remember correctly, the cover of the book was a dusty shade of blue, and included a picture of a nighttime landscape with a silver moon

The plot centers around a young girl and her family living in a rural area of what I think is probably the Northern Midwest. Someplace like Minnesota or Michigan. The thing I remember most about it is that she learns to fly with the geese, and one night gets shot by a neighbor, hitting her in the arm and putting her in a sling. This disrupts her ability to fly. I seem to recall her having a place she liked to hide and play in a thicket of bushes. I also remember, oddly enough, a particular section of the book where they discuss something called "The Bite" which is the best part of a slice of buttered toast with cinnamon and sugar. This bite is the bite taken out of the middle of such a slice when folded in half.

I can't recall the author, which is a shame, but I'm willing to bet it was a woman author

The Fledgling by Jane Langton or Mail-Order Wings by Beatrice Gormley?

Yes! The Fledgling is it! Thank you so much!