Author: Joanne Rocklin
Narrator: Georgette Perna
Unabridged: 4 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 04/10/2012
In this warmhearted middle-grade novel, Oona and her brother, Fred, love their cat Zook (short for Zucchini), but Zook is sick. As they conspire to break him out of the vet’s office, convinced he can only get better at home with them, Oona tells Fred the story of Zook’s previous lives, ranging in style from fairy tale to grand epic to slice of life. Each of Zook’s lives has echoes in Oona’s own family life, which is going through a transition she’s not yet ready to face. Her father died two years ago, and her mother has started a relationship with a man named Dylan—whom Oona secretly calls “the villain.” The truth about Dylan, and about Zook’s medical condition, drives the drama in this loving family story.
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A poignant multicultural ode to family and what it means to create a home as one girl helps her Tía move away from her beloved Miami apartment.When Estrella's Tía Fortuna has to say goodbye to her longtime Miami apartment building, The...
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This joyous and loving celebration of family is the first-ever picture book to highlight Black nighttime hair traditions--and is perfect for every little girl who knows what it's like to lose her bonnet just before bedtime.In my family, when the sun...
Christopher Robin lives behind a green door in the Hundred Acre Wood. He likes catching Woozles, leading expeditions, and throwing parties with Piglet, Rabbit, Eeyore, and of course, his very best friend, Winnie-the-Pooh.
Timothy is on probation. It's a strange word—something that happens to other kids, to delinquents, not to kids like him. And yet, he is under house arrest for the next year. He must check in weekly with a probation officer and a therapist, and...
From the author of the mega-bestseller Be Kind comes a picture book for anyone who's ever loved someone far away.Someday soon, I'll see you.Even though you are there.And I am here.So very far apart.In this heartfelt picture book, a child imagines wa...
This Newbery Honor book about a girl who has never known family fighting for her first true home “will leave readers . . . satisfied” (Kirkus Reviews). Hollis Woods is the place where a baby was abandoned is the baby’s name ...