Sand Dollar Summer by Kimberly K. Jones
Story starts off with Lisa who's twelve and she watches her strong brave mother as her life crumbles with a car accident.
Everything goes downhill from there for Lise. Her mom moves them to Maine at a beach, where she learns so much more about her mother's past life growing up there.
She is terrified of the sea but gets help from her mother's male friend. He helps take care of her mother and figures out a way to make her legs work a bit better, in the ocean.
Loved hearing of the things she could be herself on the island and to be able to read as much as she wanted. Love the people she meets, the true islanders who become her friends.
Especially like Ben who lives in a shanty near the shore and he's very old and explains about ocean to her and other things dealing with the lcoale. Shark took necklace, sounds so cool...
The hurricane is due to hit them and some take care to board up their places against the fierce wind and rains. We had just gone through three here in RI in the past 3 weeks time and have endured the 36 hours of salty rain and winds and no electric.
Have gone through so many more here in my life so I can imagine how she really feels. She is caught off guard and tries to outrun the storm as you watch her struggle in the waves, at the rock shore.
Love watching her mom get strong again and how she is able to find things along the beach, using her walker. Peaceful ending for some on the island and it makes you stronger.
Enjoyed this read and it was scary at times. Love legend of sand dollar, very delicate.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
No Time Left by David Balducci
About a hitman who's got another job. He's notified where to go and he gets details.
He is not told why the woman has to die and he must shake the old man's hand. We discover so much more about the details and they don't site right with the hitman.
His mother comes to him in his dreams, haunting.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow: A Book About Color by Joanna Cole, Jocelyn Stevenson,
This book I listened to and it starts out with about the author and about the illustrator.
Starts out with kids asking the teacher why the colors are in the order they are.
The kids talk among themselves and experiments they try to do. The closet is making noises and they go to investigate.
She teaches them how to use the machine and how to use regular white light to make a rainbow.
Field trip takes them to magic bus. They go into the machine, prisms and colors, so magical.
Teacher shows them to game to play to make the colors. I have seen the prisms in my eyeglasses and in my magnifying glass, it so so cool and you can easily get lost just watching as you turn just a tiny bit.
I can just imagine how colorful this book is. They have a problem getting out of the machine til one thinks harder about it...
Letters to the editors are included at the end. Note from the teacher also and she talks about transparent items will allow light to go through.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
Noisy Book by Margaret Wise Brown
Listened to this story about the small puppy who has a cinder in his eye and the vet puts patch over his eye.
We hear the sounds he hears, love how they speak the sounds of everything around them, on his way home.
I can just imagine the pages in this book being so colorful.
Cute story and teaches you that you can see things by hearing the sounds, not by seeing them.
Never realized she had so many other books dedicated to sounds.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
To be wanted at Christmastime by Gerald D. Sullivan
One story is about an adopted boy that's been bullied at school and he meets an old man and has a proposal for him....
The old man he will play Santas helper if he gets snowed in at a school the next day. . Hotel has food in the morning and the boy and prinicapl show up to take him to school .
Christmas bus I really enjoyed as the old man helps others with math homework and gets to listen to kids sing holiday tunes. He gets the perfect gift when he arrives at his destination.
Black tree and black ornament was interesting story seen from a black boys eyes. Teacher gets him.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
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