Monday, November 27, 2006
THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES by Sue Monk Kidd, read by Jenna Lamia
Fourteen-year-old Lily Owens explains: her mother is dead, her father hates her, and the popular girls in school laugh at her. It's 1964, and she takes off with her black caretaker and finds refuge at the Black Madonna Honey farm. The novel is funny, heartbreaking, and uplifting all at once. Jenna Lamia delivers a tour de force narration.
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LOOKING FOR ALASKA by John Green, read by Jeff Woodman
Sixteen-year-old Miles Halter is bored, lonely, and unchallenged, so he leaves his family home for the Culver Creek boarding school. Narrator Woodman nails the teen angst; prize-winner ALASKA inspires young listeners to ask the important questions in life and adults to remember their importance.
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