Audio books

I have been trying out the e audiobooks available through our website on NetLibrary. I listed to two this weekend, Part of Me by Kimberly Holt Willis and Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry. Both are listed as Young Adult reading, but please don't let this put you off. Both are excellent, I love the tight editing of teen reads, and the issues that are so important to their reading. Part of Me is the story of a family, beginning with fourteen-year-old Rose who longs to stay in school and become a writer one day. The closest she can get to this dream is to lie about her age in order to land a job driving a library bookmobile through the small bayou towns near her home. Take time to try this great audio book.