Book Reviews
The Penderwicks at Lastby Jeanne Birdsall; read by Susan DenakerIntermediate Listening Library Rev. 7/187 CDs 8.37 hrs. 978-0-525-59559-5 $55.00This closing volume in the beloved Penderwick series, featuring two sisters’ marriages and one’s heartbreak, is told from the point of view of eleven-year-old Lydia, the youngest Penderwick half-sister. Denaker...
Reboundby Kwame Alexander; read by Ron ButlerIntermediate, Middle School Recorded Books Rev. 7/183 CDs 3.5 hrs. 978-1-5019-4909-8 $30.75In this prequel to Alexander’s The Crossover (rev. 5/14), twelve-year-old Charlie Bell (future father of the first book’s twin protagonists) is sent to stay with his grandparents for the summer after his own...
Refugeeby Alan Gratz; read by Michael Goldstrom, Kyla Garcia, and Assaf CohenIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic Audio Rev. 11/177 CDs 7.62 hrs. 978-1-338-19107-3 $34.99The difficult plight of refugees is here represented by the stories of three children from different locations and time periods. Josef, a Jewish boy living in Nazi Germany,...
If You Come Softlyby Jacqueline Woodson; read by Jorjeana Marie, Guy Lockard, and Jacqueline WoodsonHigh School Listening Library3 CDs 3.72 hrs 978-0-525-63790-5 $45.00The twentieth anniversary audiobook of Woodson’s novel opens with her heartfelt introduction about the persistent relevance of this tragic story about an interracial teen couple, Jeremiah (Miah) and...
Between the Linesby Nikki Grimes; read by Cherise Boothe, Lori Gardner, Almarie Guerra, Sisi Aisha Johnson, Edward Lopez, Ruffin Prentiss, and James ShippyMiddle School, High School Recorded BooksRev. 3/18 4 CDs 4 hrs. 978-1-5019-6261-5 $13.99Nine high school students take turns giving readers their impressions of a poetry class they’re all...
Tess of the Roadby Rachel Hartman; read by Katharine McEwanHigh School Listening Library Rev. 3/1813 CDs 16.27 hrs. 978-1-5247-7955-9 $70.00Narrated by McEwan in a crisply enunciated English accent, this fantasy (a companion to Hartman’s Seraphina, rev. 7/12) follows the anarchic Tess as the seventeen-year-old misfit almost ruins her twin sister’s...
Betty Before Xby Ilyasah Shabazz with Renée Watson; read by Ilyasah ShabazzIntermediate, Middle School Macmillan Young Listeners Rev. 3/184 CDs 4.5 hrs. 978-1-4272-9368-8 $29.99Long before she was the wife of Malcolm X, Betty Shabazz was a girl growing up in 1940s Detroit within a solid churchgoing community engaged in the...
Merci Suárez Changes Gearsby Meg MedinaIntermediate, Middle School Candlewick 361 pp. g9/18 978-0-7636-9049-6 $16.99Working-class Cuban American girl Mercedes “Merci” Suárez’s life in South Florida consists of spending time with her extended family and attending elite Seaward Pines Academy, where the sixth grader does community service to pay for her tuition....
As You Wishby Chelsea Sedoti; read by Brian HutchisonHigh School Recorded Books Rev. 1/188 CDs 9.75 hrs. 978-1-5019-7224-9 $24.49In a Nevada desert town where everyone gets a wish on his or her eighteenth birthday (and it comes true), seventeen-year-old Eldon doesn’t know what to choose. What’s more, he’s convinced that...
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