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It’s 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and 10-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him: He has his own suitcase full of special things. He’s the author of Bud Caldwell’s Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!! Bud’s got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father.
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Great Family Audio
- By Dionne on 02-21-09
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The Life I'm In
- By: Sharon G. Flake
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Skin I'm In, listeners saw into the life of Maleeka Madison, a teen who suffered from the ridicule she received because of her dark skin color. For decades fans have wanted to know the fate of the bully who made Maleeka's life miserable, Char. Now in Sharon Flake's latest and unflinching novel, The Life I'm In, we follow Charlese Jones, who, with her raw, blistering voice speaks the truths many girls face, offering insight to some of the causes and conditions that make a bully.
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Read ASAP!
- By leah on 08-01-22
By: Sharon G. Flake
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River on Fire
- By: Scott Pratt
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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River on Fire is the story of Randall Smith, a foundling orphan growing up in the midwestern United States in the late 1960s. Without the intimate guidance of loving parents, Randall struggles to understand a dangerous and confusing world during one of the most tumultuous times in modern history. Filled with humor and irony, River on Fire will both warm and break your heart.
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I have very mixed feelings about this novel
- By Wayne on 12-15-15
By: Scott Pratt
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Girl Unbroken
- A Sister's Harrowing Story of Survival from the Streets of Long Island to the Farms of Idaho
- By: Regina Calcaterra, Rosie Maloney
- Narrated by: Rosie Maloney, Regina Calcaterra
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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They are five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic mother who leaves them to fend for themselves for weeks at a time. Yet through it all, they have each other. Rosie, the youngest, is fawned over and shielded by her older sister, Regina. Their mother, Cookie, blows in and out of their lives "like a hurricane, blind and uncaring to everything in her path". But when Regina emancipates herself as a minor and escapes, her siblings are separated.
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Moving memoir
- By Kate Doble on 02-22-17
By: Regina Calcaterra, and others
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Who Am I Without Him?
- Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in their Lives
- By: Sharon Flake
- Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor, Cherise Boothe, Corey Allen, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Guys and girls get together, get played, and get real. Who Am I Without Him? is a Booklist Top 10 Romance Novel for Teens and is "breaking new and necessary ground" in 12 short stories about guys and girls falling in and out of love and relationships, testing out ways to communicate with one another, respect each other - and respect themselves. This is a complex, often humorous, and always on-point exploration of today's teens determined to find love and self-worth...any way they know how.
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First time on audible - many times good reading
- By SDP on 02-13-23
By: Sharon Flake
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Drown
- By: Junot Diaz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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With 10 stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, Junot Diaz makes his remarkable debut. Diaz's work is unflinching and strong, and these stories crackle with an electric sense of discovery.
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Latino literature at its best!
- By Absinthe on 03-15-11
By: Junot Diaz
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Back Roads
- By: Tawni O'Dell
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is. With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager.
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An unexpected twist
- By Leticia Porche on 01-02-20
By: Tawni O'Dell
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Firefly Cloak
- By: Sheri Reynolds
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Eight-year-old Tessa Lee and her little brother, Travis, are left at a campground by their mother and her boyfriend, a crooked-nosed man named Goose. All the two children have is a tent, their bags of clothes, the firefly cloak they'd used for covers the night before, and a phone number printed in magic marker on Travis' back. Tessa Lee knows that her momma and Goose have skedaddled in a car with recently changed license plates. She just doesn't know why.
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Wow!
- By shopgirl on 08-24-07
By: Sheri Reynolds
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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
- By: Jack Gantos
- Narrated by: Jack Gantos
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Joey Pigza can't sit still. He can't pay attention, he can't follow the rules, and he can't help it - especially when his meds aren't working. Joey's had problems ever since he was born, problems just like his dad and grandma have. And whether he's wreaking havoc on a class trip or swallowing his house key, Joey's problems are getting worse. In fact, his behavior is so off the wall that his teachers are threatening to send him to the special-ed center downtown. Joey knows he's really a good kid, but no matter how hard he tries to do the right thing, something always seems to go wrong.
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Touching and Relevant
- By Melissa on 12-11-17
By: Jack Gantos
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As Brave as You
- By: Jason Reynolds
- Narrated by: Guy Lockard
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Genie's summer is full of surprises. The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginia - in the COUNTRY! The second surprise comes when Genie figures out that their grandfather is blind. Thunderstruck, and being a curious kid, Genie peppers Grandpop with questions about how he covers it so well (besides wearing way cool Ray-Bans).
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Awesome
- By MM on 02-16-18
By: Jason Reynolds
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Stick
- By: Andrew Smith
- Narrated by: Josh Hurley
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Fourteen-year-old Stark McClellan (nicknamed Stick because he’s tall and thin) is bullied for being "deformed" - he was born with only one ear. His older brother, Bosten, is always there to defend Stick. But the boys can’t defend each other from their abusive parents. When Stick realizes Bosten is gay, he knows that to survive his father's anger, Bosten must leave home. Stick has to find his brother, or he will never feel whole again. In his search, he will encounter good people, bad people, and people who are simply indifferent to kids from the wrong side of the tracks. But he never loses hope of finding love - and his brother.
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Amazing book!
- By Christopher Gaines on 02-19-18
By: Andrew Smith
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Me & Emma
- By: Elizabeth Flock
- Narrated by: Lauren Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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In many ways, Carrie Parker is like any other eight-year-old: playing make-believe, dreading school, dreaming of faraway places. But even her imaginative mind can't shut out the realities of her impoverished North Carolina home or help her protect her younger sister, Emma.
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Amazing
- By John on 10-02-08
By: Elizabeth Flock
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LaRose
- A Novel
- By: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich.
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Grief and Love
- By Mel on 07-09-16
By: Louise Erdrich