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1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 45 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Jennifer Lauck. |
| Summary |
With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away. The house on Mary Street was home to Jennifer; her older brother B.J.; their hardworking father, who smelled like aftershave and read her Snow White; and their mother, who called her little daughter Sunshine and embraced Jackie Kennedy's sense of style. Through a child's eyes, the skies of Carson City were forever blue, and life was perfect -- a world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with hairspray, powder, and a kiss on the cheek. But soon, everything Jennifer has come to love and rely on begins to crumble, sending her on a roller coaster of loss and loneliness. In a world unhinged by tragedy, where beautiful mothers die and families are warped by more than they can bear, a young girl must transcend a landscape of pain and mistreatment to discover her richest resource: her own unshakable will to survive. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Lauck, Jennifer -- Childhood and youth.
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Abandoned children -- California -- Biography.
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California -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Lauck, Jennifer.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780743542050 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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0743542053 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11373744 |
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