| Playing Time |
051151 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 74687 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Duration: 5:11:51. |
| Performer |
Read by Novella Nelson. |
| Summary |
A warm portrayal of an African-American family in a story that moves with mounting intensity to a dramatic, believable, and a wholly satisfying conclusion. Yolanda is a great big girl and strong for her age, bigger and stronger and smarter than anyone else in the fifth grade. She is cool and streetwise, too, and afraid of no one. It's easy for her to watch out for her little, first-grade brother, Andrew. But their mother, a legal professional and a widow, is concerned about crime and drugs in her children's Chicago school. She moves them all to a smaller and, she hopes, safer town. Yolanda, at first, is scornful of her new town. And Andrew, who never talks much, is having trouble learning to read. What he loves to do is play on the old harmonica given to him as a baby by his father to teethe on and which he's kept blowing ever since. He can imitate any sound he hears, like bacon sizzling, or express any mood he feels, like the freshness of an early morning. Yolanda understands that that's the way he "talks." |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Genius -- Juvenile fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Siblings -- Juvenile fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Musicians -- Juvenile fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Nelson, Novella.
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| ISBN |
9780739361795 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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0739361791 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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