Lolo's Light

De: Liz Garton Scanlon

Narrado por: Laura Knight Keating

This is a truth about growing up.

Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesn’t happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking.

For Millie, it’s something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors’ infant daughter, dies—unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably—on the night Millie babysits.

There’s nothing she could have done. There’s nothing she can do now. So how does she go on?

She does what you’ll do. She finds her way.

This poignant and profound coming-of-age story portrays a tragic experience of responsibility and its poisonous flip side: guilt. Cathartic and important, it’s an honest and empathetic portrait of a girl at her most vulnerable—a mess of grief, love, and ultimately, acceptance—who must reckon with those most difficult of demons: death … and life.

©2022 Liz Garton Scanlon (P)2022 Recorded Books

Beautiful & Unique. SO glad I read this!

I enjoyed this book immensely. Liz Garton Scanlon's ability to delve into a tough topic and speak from the heart of a 7th grader is like nothing else I've read. This book is great for kids as well as adults. We will all experience grief and loss in our lives and this story makes us feel less alone in that.
*Also, I loved narration by Laura Knight Keating.