

Joy School
Author: Elizabeth Berg
Series: Katie Nash #2
Narrator: Natalie Ross
Unabridged: 5 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 12/03/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Elizabeth Berg
Series: Katie Nash #2
Narrator: Natalie Ross
Unabridged: 5 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 12/03/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Berg is the New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including The Year of Pleasures, The Art of Mending, Say When, True to Form, Never Change, and Open House, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection in 2000. Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year, and Talk Before Sleep was short-listed for the ABBY award in 1996. The winner of the 1997 New England Booksellers Award for her body of work, Berg is also the author of a nonfiction work, Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True. She lives in Chicago.
Perhaps this was a guilty pleasure but I really liked this wonderful (if not a bit formulaic) dip into the mind of a thirteen-year-old girl as she navigates a cruel new town, unusual new friends, and an older man she falls in love with. There were a lot of funny scenes and I appreciated Berg's quick......more
Memory Lane indeed! I loved spending time with young Katie. Her emotionally volatile father, her dying mother, her rebellious, beautiful sister, Diane: I couldn't get enough of them, so for sure I read the other two books in the Katie Nash series. Katie is an army brat and soon learns that "home" is w......more
The kind of y/a adults will gobble up as eagerly. Not quite as moving as its prequel, Durable Goods, Joy School is nonetheless wrenching and engaging. Katie, now living in Missouri with her father and their housekeeper/nanny, is about to turn 13. She has trouble making friends at her new school for......more
Back to the 50’s and my teenage years, revisiting Katie as she turns 13. A sweet story of a young girls first brush with love and its loss. Times seemed so much more innocent then. Looking back I think they were. Ms Berg is close to my generation, I think that is why I enjoy her look at the way thing......more
An amazingly authentic-feeling snippet of the life of a 12-13-year-old girl. She's lost, looking for friends, and learns a lot from the various cast of characters around her. You feel for her, and wonder if she'll find her way, but feel solid by the end that she'll be okay, and stronger for it. Eliz......more