Leap Day

Name: Leap Day
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Wendy Mass
ISBN: 9781490673172

Author: Wendy Mass

Narrator: Johanna Parker, Julia Gibson

Unabridged: 6 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/02/2015

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

Award-winning author Wendy Mass delivers Leap Day, chosen by the Junior Library Guild as a 2004 selection. Today is a big day for Josie Taylor-she has play auditions and a driver's test. But even more importantly, she is celebrating her sweet sixteen and her fourth birthday-she was born on Leap Day. Told from Josie's perspective and the perspective of her friends and family, this entertaining tale will ring true for every teenage listener.

About Wendy Mass

Wendy Mass is the New York Times bestselling author of The Candymakers series, Bob, and many other novels for young readers, including the Schneider Family Book Award-winner A Mango-Shaped Space, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (which was made into a feature film), Every Soul a Star, Pi in the Sky, the Twice Upon a Time series, and the Willow Falls series that began with 11 Birthdays. She and her family live in New Jersey.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amanda on January 11, 2013

I should have known from the first page when the heroine talked about wanting a boy to feel her up that this wasn't the book for me. Call it morals. Call it decency. Call it "I will flip out and go bat-crazy if my daughter turns does this!!!" No, fifteen-just-turning-sixteen wasn't that long ago for......more