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Title details for The Wonder of Charlie Anne by Kimberly Newton Fusco - Available

The Wonder of Charlie Anne

by Kimberly Newton Fusco
Ann Marie Lee
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Charlie Anne is devastated when her father must go north to build roads after the Depression hits. She and her siblings are left with their rigid cousin, Mirabel, and a farm full of chores. The only solace Charlie Anne finds is by the river, where the memory of her mother is strongest.
 
Then her neighbor Old Mr. Jolly brings home a new wife, Rosalyn, who shows up in pants—pants!—the color of red peppers. With her arrives Phoebe, a young African American girl who has also lost her mother. Phoebe is smart and fun and the perfect antidote to Charlie Anne's lonely days. The girls soon forge a friendship and learn from each other in amazing ways.
 
But when hatred turns their town ugly, it's almost more than they can bear. Now it's up to Charlie Anne and Phoebe to prove that our hearts are always able to expand.

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  • Release date

    August 10, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307711069
      • File size: 191544 KB
      • Duration: 06:39:02

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 4.7
    • Lexile® Measure: 970
    • Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    • Text Difficulty: 5-7

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In this Depression-era novel, a girl named Charlie Anne must take on adult responsibilities when her beloved mother dies in childbirth and her father must go north to work on New Deal roads to avoid losing the family's farm. Ann Marie Lee does justice to the material with the voice of an entertaining and suitably annoyed-sounding preteen who resents having to answer to an unlikable aunt and who longs to be friends with the new girl, an African-American whom the community looks down upon. Although Lee occasionally lays on Charlie's accent too thickly, her halting rendition of "Amazing Grace," which Charlie sings to confront the prejudice at her church, brings a lump to the throat. D.G. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.7
  • Lexile® Measure:970
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:5-7

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