Showing results by author "Erin Kelly" in Growing Up & Facts of Life

Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main and wrestles with an explosive temper that he doesn’t understand. And Bird, his 12-year-old twin, dreams of being NASA’s first female shuttle commander, but feels like she’s disappearing.

Twelve-year-old Charlotte Lockard and 11-year-old Ben Boxer are separated by more than a thousand miles. On the surface, their lives seem vastly different - Charlotte lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while Ben is in the small town in Louisiana. Charlotte wants to be a geologist and keeps a rock collection in her room. Ben is obsessed with Harry Potter, presidential history, and recycling. But the two have more in common than they think. They're both highly gifted. They're both experiencing family turmoil. And they both sit alone at lunch.

Two sisters from the Philippines, abandoned by their father and living with their stepmother in Louisiana, fight to make their lives better in this remarkable story for listeners of Cynthia Kadohata and Rita Williams-Garcia, and for anyone searching for the true meaning of family.

Eine dreistimmige Lesung so kraftvoll und emotional wie ein Raketenstart. Die USA fiebern dem Start des Spaceshuttles Challenger entgegen. Gleichzeitig besuchen drei Geschwister in Delaware, Texas, die 7. Klasse und sind auf ihren eigenen Umlaufbahnen unterwegs: Der zwölfjährige Fitch verbringt jeden Nachmittag mit Flipperspielen und kämpft gegen sein explosives Temperament. Bird, seine Zwillingsschwester, träumt davon, die erste Shuttle-Kommandantin der NASA zu werden. Und ihr dreizehnjähriger Bruder Cash droht, ein zweites Mal in der 7. Klasse durchzurasseln.

Apple has always felt a little different from her classmates. She and her mother moved to Louisiana from the Philippines when she was little, and her mother still cooks Filipino foods and chastises Apple for becoming “too American.” When Apple’s friends turn on her and everything about her life starts to seem weird and embarrassing, Apple turns to music. If she can just save enough to buy a guitar and learn to play, maybe she can change herself. It might be the music that saves her . . . or it might be her two new friends, who show her how special she really is.