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Jenny Lombard
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A poignant story about the difficulties of leaving everything behind and the friendships that help you get through it.
Fleeing war-torn Kosovo, 10-year-old Drita and her family move to America with the dream of living a typical American life. But with this hope comes the struggle to adapt and fit in. How can Drita find her place at school and in her new neighborhood when she doesn't speak any English? Meanwhile, Maxie and her group of fourth-grade friends are popular in their class, and make an effort to ignore Drita. So when their teacher puts Maxie and Drita together for a class project, things get off to a rocky start. But sometimes, when you least expect it, friendship can bloom and overcome even a vast cultural divide.
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When Lonnie Collins Motion was seven years old, his life changed forever. Now Lonnie is eleven and his life is about to change again. His teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper. And suddenly, Lonnie has a whole new way to tell the world about his life, his friends, his little sister, Lili, and even his foster mom, Miss Edna, who started out crabby but isn’t so bad after all. Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson’s lyrical voice captures Lonnie’s thoughtful perspectives of the world and his determination to one day put a family together again.
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The whole story
- De A Shaffer en 05-26-20
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Clementine
- Clementine, Book 1
- De: Sara Pennypacker
- Narrado por: Jessica Almasy
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
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When her best friend and neighbor Margaret comes to her with a problem, Clementine goes to many lengths to help her friend. This sets off a rollicking adventure-filled week that finds Clementine getting into and out of further trouble, while learning valuable life lessons.
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One credit for a 1.5 hr book!?
- De Nothing really matters en 02-21-16
De: Sara Pennypacker
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The Pinballs
- De: Betsy Byars
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 2 h y 44 m
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When you're a pinball, life is a risky game, especially for three adolescent children placed in a foster home. Their hard-won defenses are firmly in place as these three uneasy strangers meet their foster parents. For each of these children who were failed by their families, caring for others is so scary it hurts. No one has been in control. But as their daily lives become dotted with fried chicken dinners, puppies, and birthdays, they begin to hope that even pinballs can be winners.
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- De Kaye en 10-14-19
De: Betsy Byars
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The Mare
- De: Mary Gaitskill
- Narrado por: Kyla Garcia, Christa Lewis, Sean Pratt, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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Velveteen Vargas is an 11-year-old from Brooklyn who is granted a summer vacation in the country, courtesy of the nonprofit Fresh Air Fund. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist on the fringe of Alcoholics Anonymous; and Paul, an academic who wonders what it will mean to "make a difference" in such a contrived situation.
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disappointing
- De Mark en 01-06-16
De: Mary Gaitskill
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The Other Side of Paradise
- A Memoir
- De: Staceyann Chin
- Narrado por: Staceyann Chin
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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Stacyann Chin has appeared on television and radio, including The Oprah Winfrey Show , CNN, and PBS, discussing issues of race and sexuality. But it is her extraordinary voice that launched her career as a performer, poet, and activist. Here, she shares her unforgettable story of triumph against all odds in this brave and fiercely candid memoir.
No one knew Staceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house in Jamaica, on Christmas Day.
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Incredible life, incredible performer
- De RyRy en 10-21-19
De: Staceyann Chin
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The Center of Everything
- De: Laura Moriarty
- Narrado por: Julie Dretzin
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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The Center of Everything is the fictional story of 10-year-old math prodigy Evelyn Bucknow. Living in Kansas with her single mother and deeply religious grandmother, Evelyn believes she is destined to marry Travis, the boy next door. But as she grows up, she experiences the heartbreak of a love not meant to be. Author Laura Moriarty was a recipient of the George Bennet Fellowship for Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy.
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not religious fiction
- De Theresa Jameson en 04-28-14
De: Laura Moriarty
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Boy, Snow, Bird
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett, Carra Patterson
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty - the opposite of the life she' s left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she' d become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy' s daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white.
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For Literary Lovers
- De M. Shipe en 04-25-14
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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Fish in a Tree
- De: Lynda Hunt
- Narrado por: Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
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Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb? However, her newest teacher Mr. Daniels sees the bright, creative kid underneath the trouble maker. With his help, Ally learns not to be so hard on herself and that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of.
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Great book but...not just dyslexia
- De Jennifer Hurst en 12-31-15
De: Lynda Hunt
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I'm Down
- A Memoir
- De: Mishna Wolff
- Narrado por: Mishna Wolff
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. "He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esque sweater, gold chains and a Kangol---telling jokes like Redd Fox, and giving advice like Jesse Jackson. You couldn't tell my father he was white. Believe me, I tried," writes Wolff. And so from early childhood on, her father began his crusade to make his white daughter down.
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I stopped listening an hour in....
- De Casey en 11-07-09
De: Mishna Wolff
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Mirrored
- De: Alex Flinn
- Narrado por: Amanda Dolan, Caitlin Davies, James Fouhey, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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Celine's life is the stuff fairy tales are made of. She's beautiful, talented, and brave. Unfortunately, her tale comes complete with a wicked stepmother! When Violet steps into Celine's life, everything changes, and weird things begin to happen to her - bizarre accidents, strange illnesses, and rabid animal attacks. Celine doesn't feel safe anywhere. It's almost as if some hateful witch is out to get her.
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It was pretty good, just not a book that I would listen to over and over again
- De Pablo Valdez en 04-27-17
De: Alex Flinn
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Chicken Soup for the Child's Soul: Character-Building Stories to Read with Kids Ages 5 - 8
- De: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen
- Narrado por: Leslie Bellair
- Duración: 4 h y 8 m
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Today's children live in a world filled with adventure, mental stimulation, topical issues, and personal challenges. The values they learn now, between the ages of 5 and 8, will shape the rest of their lives. Through this collection of heartfelt true stories about family ties, helping neighbors, and lasting friendships, children will see how other kids their age have learned valuable lessons from the choices they've made - and most of all, they will realize that they are not alone in dealing with some of the difficult issues in their lives.
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My kids love these
- De shrockin en 12-22-15
De: Jack Canfield, y otros
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The Story of Arthur Truluv
- A Novel
- De: Elizabeth Berg
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Berg
- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
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Three people find their way back from loss and loneliness to a different kind of belonging in this deeply moving novel. Arthur, an old widower struggling to overcome his grief, meets Maddy, a troubled teenage girl who avoids school by hiding out where Arthur goes every day for lunch. The two strike up a friendship that draws them out of isolation.
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Sickly Sweet
- De Amazon Customer en 01-19-18
De: Elizabeth Berg
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The Red Umbrella
- De: Christina Diaz Gonzalez
- Narrado por: Kyla Garcia
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía Álvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to her sleepy Cuban town, everything begins to change. Freedoms are stripped away. Neighbors disappear. And soon, Lucía's parents make the heart-wrenching decision to send her and her little brother to the United States - on their own. Suddenly plunked down in Nebraska with well-meaning strangers, Lucía struggles to adapt to a new country, a new language, a new way of life. But what of her old life?
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The performance
- De Luca en 04-05-24