Carry Me Home, Janet Fox
Carry Me Home, Janet Fox
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Carry Me Home

Author: Janet Fox

Narrator: Emily Eiden

Unabridged: 4 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/20/2024


Synopsis

“A poignant and powerful reminder that homelessness is not hopelessness.” —Kirby Larson, author of Newbery Honor book Hattie Big Sky

Two sisters struggle to keep their father’s disappearance a secret in this tender middle grade novel that’s perfect for fans of Katherine Applegate and Lynda Mullaly Hunt.

Twelve-year-old Lulu and her younger sister, Serena, have a secret. As Daddy always says,“it’s best if we keep it to ourselves,” and so they have. But hiding your past is one thing.Hiding where you live—and that your Daddy has gone missing—is harder.

At first Lulu isn’t worried. Daddy has gone away once before and he came back. But as the days add up, with no sign of Daddy, Lulu struggles to take care of all the responsibilities they used to manage as a family.

Lulu knows that all it takes is one slip-up for their secret to come spilling out, for Lulu and Serena to be separated, and for the good things that have been happening in school to be lost.

But family is all around us, and Lulu must learn to trust her new friends and community to save those she loves and to finally find her true home.

About The Author

Janet Fox is an author, mom, outdoor enthusiast, and former teacher. She’s been to the bottom of the ocean in a submersible, and had a brief fling with rock stardom. Her novels are written for children and young adults but have won her fans of all ages. Her gothic middle grade novel The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle has received a whole bunch of starsand the lovely Crystal Kite Award. She lives in Bozeman, Montana.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Teri on June 21, 2017

Carry Me Home is a thorough account of the history of the fight for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama. McWhorter gives detailed background on the politics behind segregationist groups, Dixiecrats, and the Freedom Movement. Also covered are the Freedom Rides, local marches led by Martin Luther King......more

Goodreads review by Carina on February 13, 2012

FINALLY. Wow, this book took me forever to read. It's so huge and densely packed with information that I really don't know how to rate it. There were parts I liked a lot and other parts where I just felt overwhelmed by all the names flying at me. I would certainly need to read it more than once to h......more

Goodreads review by Steve on July 02, 2017

The full story of Birmingham I did not know that this book had won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2001 when I started reading it. It richly deserves the prize. Written by a "baby boomer" who as a pre-adolescent during the crucial years of the 60's, lived in Birmingham as a privileged member of......more

Goodreads review by Brian Bess on March 24, 2020

The Autobiography of Bombingham Journalist Diane McWhorter is a Birmingham native who was ten at the time that the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing killed four young girls and had her eleventh birthday just a few weeks before the assassination of JFK. She was born into one of the old affluent......more

The Women's National Book Association sent this book to the White House today (March 16) in honor of Women's History Month: [URL not allowed]-... From the Women's National Book Association's press release: In Carry Me Home, McWhorter returns to Birmingham in 1963, the site of civil......more