Adventures with Claudie, Brit Bennett
Adventures with Claudie, Brit Bennett
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Adventures with Claudie

Author: Brit Bennett

Narrator: Shayna Small

Unabridged: 1 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/06/2023

Synopsis

Claudie is traveling from Harlem to Georgia with Mama and Cousin Sidney to meet her grandmother and cousins for the first time. She hopes that learning her family's story will inspire her for the variety show she's planning to raise money to save the boardinghouse her family lives in. Claudie's grandmother tells her a legend from slavery times called "The People Could Fly." In it, an old man whispers magic words, and the enslaved people grow wings and fly home to Africa. This gives Claudie an amazing idea for the finale of her show--but will Claudie's creativity be enough to save the home she loves?

About Brit Bennett

American author, Brit Bennett, was born and raised in Southern California. She graduated from Stanford University, then earned her M.F.A. from University of Michigan. She was also an attendee of Oxford University. Quite a prestigious educational background for this author.

Her first work that garnered attention for Bennett was her essay for Jezebel entitled, "I Don't Know What to do With Good White People". That essay generated over one million views in three days. She has had other essays featured in The New Yorker. The New York Times Magazine, and The Paris Review.

Her debut novel was The Mothers, which was a NYT best-seller. Her second novel was The Vanishing Half, which was also a NYT #1 best-seller.

Bennett has received awards from different groups throughout her career for her fiction genre. She has also published important non-fiction essays.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Audrey on July 20, 2023

Richly detailed, well researched, beautiful illustrations!......more

Goodreads review by Clara on April 11, 2024

This is my favorite recent American Girl historical character book! It somehow manages to both be heartwarming and not at all shy away from the realities of 1920s racism. I'm disappointed that it seems to wrap up Claudie's story, as I'd hoped we'd be getting a longer series with the new book format......more

Goodreads review by dawn on July 14, 2023

my heart squeezes with love for claudie and her family, friends, and community.......more

Goodreads review by RaspberryRoses on November 16, 2024

Most of my thoughts on this book kind of naturally went into my review of Meet Claudie, so I'll just link that instead of repeating myself. I did like this one slightly less, since I felt like I never got a sense of the extended family and their personality - which was odd, considering how well-flesh......more

Goodreads review by Marnie on December 22, 2023

this girl is so cute!! also very interesting thought that was the closing thought of “A Right To Sex” and was reiterated in this which is the bravest thing someone can do is survive. four stars because i think the six book series is so much better. you get more time with the girls. the two book abri......more

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