LunchBox Dream, Tony Abbott
LunchBox Dream, Tony Abbott
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Lunch-Box Dream

Author: Tony Abbott

Narrator: Kevin R. Free, Robin Miles, Brian Schreier

Unabridged: 3 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/21/2012


Synopsis

In this compelling novel, Golden Kite Award-winning children's author Tony Abbott explores Jim Crow laws and family strife from multiple perspectives. During the summer of 1959, Bobby and his family are visiting Civil War battlefields. Tempers flare as an accident cuts their trip short and forces them to return home by bus. On their journey, they witness a black family getting denied bus seats. In brief flashes of insight, young Bobby begins to question his assumptions about race. "Beautifully crafted and written."-Publishers Weekly, starred review

About Tony Abbott

Tony Abbott is the author of over a hundred books for young readers, including the bestseling series the Secrets of Droon and the Copernicus Legacy and the novels Firegirl and The Summer of Owen Todd. Tony has worked in libraries, in bookstores, and in a publishing company and has taught creative writing. He has two grown daughters and lives in Connecticut with his wife and two dogs. You can visit him online at www.tonyabottbooks.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Wendy

I don't know what this book is supposed to be, or when I've read a children's book that seems so wildly unappealing to children. Almost all the characters are thoroughly unpleasant, the protagonist is weirdly obsessed with black people in a way that seems unrealistic (his very first reaction to the......more

Goodreads review by Betsey

I'm trying to figure out why this book gets such bad reviews. I actually really enjoyed it. I liked the dichotomy of the families. White, middle-class, miserable, and unloving, vs. black, poor, and close knit family. To see the Jim Crow laws of the 1950's through the eyes of a child is rather unlike a......more

Goodreads review by Ricardo

This book is a good choice for people who like history and realism, as it treats the racism of the 50’s in a real way, giving those who like history a great option to read. Bobby and his family are heading for a family trip in which the arrival does not matter much since Bobby only wants to go to th......more

Goodreads review by Angie

Bobby and his family take a trip south to see the Civil War battlefields. Jacob is spending the summer with his aunt and uncle. This book is told from various narrators perspectives and it makes for a very disjointed telling. It is supposed to highlight Jim Crow laws in the South during the 1950s an......more