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A Solitary Blue

By: Cynthia Voigt
Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
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Award-winning novelist for young adults, Cynthia Voigt creates this moving tale of a youngster discovering genuine family love. If Jeff is perfect, maybe his father won't leave like his mother. Narrator Jeff Woodman holds listeners spellbound as he narrates the teenage boy's poignant struggles to accept himself before he can really know others.
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Captivating story

Would you listen to A Solitary Blue again? Why?

Perhaps, but I don't usually reread or re-listen to books.

What other book might you compare A Solitary Blue to and why?

I love how the Tillerman family gets worked into this story as well.

Which scene was your favorite?

When he realized he's chosen some friends, good friends.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

The hidden, real story about Jeff Green.

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Insightful, powerful, yet steady in how a person grows and understands the world around him/her.

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Yes!

Wonderful book for young people, she writes for young people with an adult book level of art and emotional complexity but delivers it in a way that is precious to young people. I with I'd read this as a young adult, however Dicey's song which proceeds this was one of the 3 best books of my childhood.

Also this book should be required reading for parents and people who work with children because she really gets at the way that child abuse can play out nonviolently, through neglect; the devastating effect this had on a child, and also how adults can be doing this without realizing that they are.

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Excellent Book

Excellent story. The Tillerman Cycle is one of the best series for any age. My daughter, who is eleven, and I have loved listening and discussing each book. Highly recommend.

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Good Book

This was a good book to listen to! I wish they would do audiobooks for the other books in the series!!!

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Still one of my favorites

Cynthia Voigt does such a beautiful job of capturing the nuances of personalities and tensions in relationship, the difficulty in interpreting deeply felt emotions, the joy of meaningful friendship. The whole series is well worth exploring

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Doesn’t measure up to the first two

Homecoming and Dicey’s Song are exceptional. I was hopeful this third book in the Tillerman series would be just as good, but it was slow and hard to get into. It didn’t have the same depth of characters and tenderness as the first two. The narrator had a boring voice adding another level of uninteresting. Definitely go back and listen to the beginning of the series read by a different narrator though!

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