Birdland

Name: Birdland
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Tracy Mack
ISBN: 9781455106233

Author: Tracy Mack

Narrator: Lloyd James

Unabridged: 2 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/27/2005

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

Amid the sparkle and hum of a New York City winter, Jed and his best friend, Flyer, are filming a documentary of their neighborhood. In the process, Jed confronts painful memories of his older brother, Zeke, a poet who loved jazzman Charlie Bird Parker and who died, leaving behind his CDs, a notebook, and a lot of unanswered questions. When Jed encounters a mysterious homeless girl he thinks holds the key to connecting him to Zeke, it could be his only way to unlock his deepest sorrow and discover how to bewho to beon his own.

About Tracy Mack

Tracy Mack’s debut novel, Drawing Lessons, was named a Booklist Top Ten First Novel of 2000, a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, a Bank Street College Best Book, and a Teen People NEXT Award finalist. A book editor and devoted yogini, she lives in Brooklyn, New York, and the Berkshires with her husband, Michael Citrin.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennie

This book is meant for a high school audience. It covers such things as cutting oneself to release pain, smoking (both cigarettes and pot), alcohol, diabetes, suicide, mental health issues, death, and grief. For a high schooler, especially a freshmen at 14, this would be a heavy read. As an adult, wh......more

Goodreads review by Adam

Birdland by Tracy Mack is a fictional book that left me disinterested the whole time. The whole plot of the book is about the main character and his best friend, Flyer trying to make a documentary. They go around their town to make their documentary but Joseph, the main character is constantly distr......more

Goodreads review by Cait

It was a really interesting book to discuss with students and we loved the themes of family, connection and grief. This being said, we wished there was more depth to these themes instead of a quick wrap-up ending.......more