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- By Kim on 09-15-16
By: Ann Howard Creel
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Rush Home Road
- By: Lori Lansens
- Narrated by: Ruby Dee
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 253
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Story4 out of 5 stars 191
When a 70-year-old woman finds a five-year-old girl abandoned on her doorstep, she is thrust into a sorrowful past that can only be conquered with the help of the girl who opened her memory - the very girl she is trying to save. This first novel, according to author Jacquelyn Mitchard, is one of "exquisite power, honesty, and conviction...quite nearly without flaws."
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1 out of 5 stars
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filthy language and violent content
- By Anna on 12-16-11
By: Lori Lansens
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The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
- A Novel
- By: Susan Gregg Gilmore
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44
Bezellia Grove was born into the most prominent of Nashville families, but that didn’t stop her from having an alcoholic mother and a distant, adulterous father. Her nanny, Maizelle, and Nathaniel, the handyman, are the people who have taken care of her since she can remember. She considers them family, but her parents just consider them servants because they are Black. When Bezellia has a clandestine romance with Nathaniel's son, Whites and Blacks unite in fury at the young couple.
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4 out of 5 stars
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light southern fiction
- By suzanne on 02-08-13
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Maude
- By: Donna Mabry
- Narrated by: Shana Gagnon
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,859
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,659
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,655
In 1906 I was barely over 14 years old, and it was my wedding day. My older sister, Helen, came to my room, took me by the hand, and sat me down on the bed. She said, "You've always been a good girl, Maude, and done what I told you. Now you're going to be a married woman, and he will be the head of the house. When you go home tonight after your party, no matter what he wants to do to you, you have to let him do it. Do you understand?"
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration made listening almost unbearable
- By Sandra on 01-07-16
By: Donna Mabry
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Homesick
- My Own Story
- By: Jean Fritz
- Narrated by: Jean Fritz
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
This heartwarming fictionalized autobiography tells the story of what it is like for a little girl to be growing up in an unfamiliar place. While other girls her age were enjoying childhood in America, Jean Fritz was in China in the midst of political unrest. During this time, foreigners were becoming more and more unpopular, and evacuation at a moment’s notice was imminent. Although Jean appreciated the beauty of China - the mountains, the countryside, the sea - she knew she belonged in America and longed to make her home there.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- By R. SEVERSON on 10-19-18
By: Jean Fritz
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Paradise
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 199
In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORRISON AT HER MOST COMPLEX
- By Kennedi Hill on 11-07-19
By: Toni Morrison
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The Seamstress
- By: Sara Tuvel Bernstein, Louise Loots Thornton, Marlene Bernstein Samuels
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,809
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,643
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,632
Told with the same old-fashioned narrative power as the novels of Herman Wouk, The Seamstress is the true story of Seren (Sara) Tuvel Bernstein and her survival during wartime. This powerful eyewitness account of survival, told with power and grace, will stay with listeners for years to come.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overcome with Emotion
- By Meryl on 05-16-13
By: Sara Tuvel Bernstein, and others
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Angel of Harlem
- By: Kuwanna Haulsey
- Narrated by: Brenda Pressley
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story5 out of 5 stars 39
Inspired by the extraordinary events of Dr. May Chinn’s life, Angel of Harlem is a deeply affecting story of love and transcendence. Weaving seamlessly scenes from the battlefields of the Civil War, during which her father escaped from slavery, to the Harlem living rooms and kitchen tables where May is sometimes forced to operate on her patients, this fascinating novel lays bare the heart of a woman who changed the face of medicine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really Enjoyed!
- By Amazon Customer on 08-08-19
By: Kuwanna Haulsey
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Flame Tree Road
- By: Shona Patel
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
India, 1870s. In a tiny village where society is ruled by a caste system and women are defined solely by marriage, young Biren Roy dreams of forging a new destiny. When his mother suffers the fate of widowhood - shunned by her loved ones and forced to live in solitary penance - Biren devotes his life to effecting change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting Love Story
- By Granny on 01-15-20
By: Shona Patel
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Beyond the Pale
- By: Elana Dykewomon
- Narrated by: Elana Dykewomon
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4 out of 5 stars 71
Beyond the Pale - winner of the Lambda Literary Award - tells the stories of two Jewish women living through times of darkness and inhumanity in the early 20th century, capturing their undaunted love and courage in luminous and moving prose. The richly textured novel details Gutke Gurvich's odyssey from her apprenticeship as a midwife in a Russian shtetl to her work in the suffrage movement in New York.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great historical fiction with a lesbian twist
- By Kelly on 11-25-13
By: Elana Dykewomon
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The Twelve-Mile Straight
- A Novel
- By: Eleanor Henderson
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4 out of 5 stars 68
Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably fractured.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read!
- By S. Clay on 11-01-17
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The Star Side of Bird Hill
- By: Naomi Jackson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4 out of 5 stars 79
Two sisters, ages 10 and 16, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados, after their mother can no longer care for them. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live, for the summer of 1989, with their grandmother, Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah. Dionne spends the summer in search of love, testing her grandmother's limits, and wanting to go home. Phaedra explores Bird Hill, where her family has lived for generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My absolute favorite book of all time
- By Eme on 07-16-15
By: Naomi Jackson
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Stars Between the Sun and Moon
- One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
- By: Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 193
Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household - her parents worked in the factories, and the family scraped by on rations. Nightly she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. It was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine. Jang married an abusive man who sold their baby. She left him and went home to help her family by illegally crossing the river to China to trade goods. She was caught and imprisoned twice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic story. Well read.
- By Jfm on 02-20-16
By: Lucia Jang, and others
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The Circuit
- By: Francisco Jiménez
- Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 178
Beautifully and authentically rendered by actor and playwright Adrian Vargas, these twelve stories tell of the almost unendurable journey most migrant campesinos undertake to find the "American Dream."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Short Stories Masterpiece
- By LifeLearner on 02-02-20
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Someone Named Eva
- By: Joan M. Wolff
- Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
M. Wolf traveled to the Czech Republic, birthplace of her great-grandmother, for further insight into this remarkable story. Someone Named Eva is the devastating tale of a young girl whose identity is threatened by the allconsuming sweep of Nazi aggression. Before she loses everything, Milada is a normal, happy girl. But then come the Nazis, tearing her from her family’s arms and leaving her with little but her grandmother’s lingering words: “Remember who you are.”
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4 out of 5 stars
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It was good
- By S. R. Jordan on 02-20-24
By: Joan M. Wolff
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The Joy Luck Club
- By: Amy Tan
- Narrated by: Gwendoline Yeo
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,050
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,613
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,604
Four Chinese women, drawn together by the shadow of their past, meet in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and to "say" stories to each other. Nearly 40 years later, one of the women has died, and her daughter arrives to take her place. However, the daughter never expected to learn of her mother's secret lifelong wish - and the tragic way in which it has come true. The revelation creates among the women an urgent need to remember the past.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Joy Luck - abridged
- By Leslie Teicholz on 03-16-04
By: Amy Tan
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The Choice
- Lancaster County Secrets, Book 1
- By: Suzanne Woods Fisher
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 116
Lancaster County has always been her home - but where does her heart belong? One moment Carrie Weaver was looking forward to running away with Lancaster Barnstormers pitcher Solomon Riehl - plans that included leaving the Amish community where they grew up. But the next moment she was staring into a future as broken as her heart....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Literary Amish Story
- By Carrie Fancett Pagels on 11-29-11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Max loves stories, especially the fantastical tale Buelo tells him about a mystical gatekeeper who can guide brave travellers on a journey into tomorrow. If Max could see tomorrow, he would know if he'd make Santa Maria's celebrated fútbol team, and whether he'd ever find his mother, who left when he was a baby. Papa refuses to talk about her, so Max has learned to stop asking. But when Papa is forced to reveal his involvement in an underground network of guardians that led people fleeing a neighboring country to safety, everything Max knew about himself and his family is upended.
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So good
- By Natasha Theard on 09-01-20
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
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Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer
- By: Kelly Jones
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown feels like a fish out of water when she and her parents move from Los Angeles to the farm they’ve inherited from a great-uncle. But farm life gets more interesting when a cranky chicken appears and Sophie discovers the hen can move objects with the power of her little chicken brain: jam jars, the latch to her henhouse, the entire henhouse.
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My girls and I loved it!
- By K. Green on 12-09-20
By: Kelly Jones
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Solimar
- The Sword of Monarchs
- By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
- Narrated by: Franchesca Agramonte
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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On the brink of her Quinceañera, and her official coronation, Solimar visits the oyamel forest to sit among the monarch butterflies. There, the sun pierces through a sword-shaped crevice in a boulder, which shines on her and sends the butterflies humming and swirling around her. After the magical frenzy, she realizes she's been given a gift — and a burden: She can predict the near future!
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a great experience
- By Heidi on 12-09-22
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
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Because of Winn-Dixie
- By: Kate DiCamillo
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Ann Patchett, Kate DiCamillo
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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One summer's day, 10-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The book ''because of Winn-Dixie' is sensational
- By Anonymous User on 07-25-21
By: Kate DiCamillo
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Frindle
- By: Andrew Clements
- Narrated by: Keith Nobbs
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty of great ideas. When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he's got the inspiration for his best plan ever: the frindle. Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Things begin innocently enough as Nick gets his friends to use the new word. Then other people in town start saying frindle. Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Melts my Heart
- By LaToya Bobbins on 04-19-15
By: Andrew Clements
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- Melissa
- 04-14-19
Amazing Performance
I got this Audiobook to listen in class for my students. I having an american accent when speaking spanish often incorrectly pronounce words. Trini Alvarado does an amazing job reading one of my favorite childhood stories. Everyone should know Esperanzas journey.
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- Asmith
- 11-20-17
An enjoyable book
I found this book very interesting and easy to follow. excellent for young readers/listeners. I enjoyed the narration, as it was clear but animated.
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- Cocoabun
- 03-24-16
Beautiful
As a children's book aficionado, I have loved this book for years, it is one of my favorites. Trini Alvarado's reading was perfect, her accent staying true to the novel. I cried tears listening to it as I did reading it many times before. The only thing I wish is that it was read a bit slower as is my preference, but still 5 stars for bringing the story to life.
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- Jenifer Schmidt
- 10-29-19
Beautiful
This is a beautiful story and it is well performed. My students (5th grade) love listening to it in class. Chapter 12 is fuzzy and broken up at the end - does anyone else have this problem with the recording? Otherwise, love it!
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- Weegorgeous
- 10-17-19
You must read
Great book study in 5th-grade! The metaphors are meaningful and sweet. We can all learn something from this book!
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- Kristina
- 08-04-18
5th Grade Novel Study
I had to read this novel over the summer to prepare for my 5th grade reading classes. This is the book I decided to start the semester off with. I think my students will really be able to make connections with the story. We live in rural West Texas. Many families go to Mexico every weekend to visit their families. There were a few moments young Esperanza’s character was hard to listen to, but I couldn’t stop listening. The plot is wonderful with many opportunities to practice mental images!
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- Scott
- 08-03-19
This book was amazing!
I definitely recommend this book to everyone it was a very good and exciting book 😁
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- Holly Vavas
- 02-02-21
liked it
it was a great book I only wish that Maine character married Miguel it would have made the best book ever that because she didn't it was a little hard just finishing it
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- Brooks
- 05-23-22
It’s the best so many details
If you like lots of details and ups and downs than read this book. It’s sad angry spoiler when there dad dies it’s really sad so if you like sadness anger confusion and crime than read this book it’s really good i highly HIGHLY suggest this book it’s amazing long funny just read it to see how good it is spoiler alert she is kinda spoiled and a little mean to poor people but she gets nicer and just READ IT NOW
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- John Cook
- 02-04-19
very engaging story with historical detail
very engaging story with well folded in historical details. Extensive use of symbolism and allegory, again well blended with the narrative, makes it a breeze to read. Subjects are relatable and discrete if a little cartoony sometimes.
Well made but not my thing
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