

On My Honor
Author: Marion Dane Bauer
Narrator: Johnny Heller
Unabridged: 2 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 12/15/2008
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes
Author: Marion Dane Bauer
Narrator: Johnny Heller
Unabridged: 2 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 12/15/2008
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes
Marion Dane Bauer is an award-winning author of more than one hundred books for young people, including the Newbery Honor Book On My Honor. Formerly on the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults, she now writes full-time. She currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota.
"On My Honor" was always a kids' book that was personal to me. The author, Marion Dane Bauer, was raised in the same small town as my mother; Oglesby, Illinois. The events in the book are based on an actual young boy's drowning that took place when my mother and the author were both children. I grew......more
"On My Honor" is an amazing story that tells the tale of regret, guilt, and the realities of life through the eyes of a young boy. Joel, a conscientious and responsible boy is constantly left frustrated by his adventurous and free-spirited best friend, Tony, but when Tony gives up his idea of dange......more
Our LA teacher has some of the 7th graders read this book and he gave it to me, telling me it's a quick read. It was. I read it in about half an hour to 45 minutes. The story revolves around 2 boys, Tony and Joel. Joel is the safe, conservative one, while Tony is a little bit rougher around the edges......more
Just preparing to write this review brings back some of the enormously powerful emotions I felt while first reading On My Honor. I may never have been held in such spellbound suspense in my life—certainly not from a story—as when I read this book. The tension was almost intolerable as the dramatic a......more