Jake and Lily

Name: Jake and Lily
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (7 reviews)
Author: Jerry Spinelli
ISBN: 9780062132703

Author: Jerry Spinelli

Narrator: Cassandra Morris, Jesse Bernstein

Unabridged: 5 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Storytide

Published: 05/08/2012

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

Beloved Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli, author of Maniac Magee and Wringer, addresses issues of identity, belonging, family, and bullying in this humorous and heartfelt novel about twins. Jake and Lily are twins. Despite their slightly different interests and temperaments, they feel exactly the same—like two halves of one person. But the year they turn eleven, everything changes. Their parents announce it’s time for separate bedrooms. Jake starts hanging out with a pack of boys on the block. And Lily is devastated, not to mention angry. Who is she without Jake? And as her brother falls under the influence of the neighborhood bully, he also must ask himself—who is the real Jake?

This is an often funny, poignant, and profound story of growing up, growing apart, and the difficult process of figuring out who you really are.

About Jerry Spinelli

Jerry Spinelli received the Newbery Medal for Maniac Magee and a Newbery Honor for Wringer. His other books include Stargirl; Love, Stargirl; Smiles to Go; Loser; Jake and Lily; Hokey Pokey; and The Warden’s Daughter. His novels are recognized for their humor and poignancy, and his characters and situations are often drawn from his real-life experience as a father of six children. Jerry lives with his wife, Eileen, also a writer, in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Wendy

A roundly charming book. THIS is the book to read about bullying this year; THIS book takes place in the real world, is peopled by real people, talks down to no one, and--while, as in real life, there are adults present--the kids are the focus, the do-ers, the ones who make stuff happen. I was going......more

Goodreads review by Bibliophilic Word Nerd

Delightful. This is the story of eleven year old twins Jake and Lily learning how to find separate lives at last. They share a bond: they can feel each other and know each other's thoughts even from a great distance. But the time has come for them to grow up. In so doing, their extraordinary bond, go......more

Goodreads review by Hilda

Jake and Lily are twins. They were born in the California Zephyr train, in the Moffat Tunnel. Cool. They have something special that intertwine them. Both can feel the other’s thoughts, fear, and presence. In their birthday since they’re sixth, they somehow wake up in a train station. That is their se......more

Goodreads review by Joannah Keats

Jake and Lily were born on a train, in a tunnel 6 miles long, 11 minutes apart. Every year on the night of their birthday, they each sleepwalk to the nearby train station and wake up to find the other standing on the platform with them, evidence of the indescribable bond they share as twins - someth......more

Goodreads review by Rachael

Jake and Lily are twins – the spooky kind. They hear each other's thoughts, sense when the other twin is in danger, and, most magically, sleepwalk together every year on their birthday. Lily wants to believe that they are a matched pair – alike in every way – but Jake has his doubts. In the summer o......more