Shadow Baby, Alison McGhee
Shadow Baby, Alison McGhee
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Shadow Baby

Author: Alison McGhee

Narrator: Christina Moore

Unabridged: 6 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/26/2011

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Winner of the Minnesota Book Award, author Alison McGhee pens tales shimmering with shrewd truth and wild imaginings. In this moving novel, she tells of the growing friendship between two oddly matched people as they share their very different world. With a missing father, sister, and grandfather--and a mother who refuses to explain--11-year-old Clara lives with many questions. When she begins interviewing an elderly immigrant for a school biography assignmnent, she learns he too has a shadowy past. Attempting to fill in gaps, Clara invents version upon version of stories for both her new friend and herself. As the tales evolve, she uncovers some unsettling family history, but most importantly, she begins to discover what matters most in life. Filled with small surprises, Shadow Baby is at turns funny, poignant, and heartwarming. Narrator Christina Moore provides the perfect voice for the young heroine who is wise beyond her years, but in many ways still a child.

About Alison McGhee

Alison McGhee is the New York Times bestselling author of Someday, as well as Dear Sister, What I Leave Behind, Pablo and Birdy, Where We Are, Maybe a Fox with Kathi Appelt, Firefly Hollow, Little Boy, So Many Days, Star Bright, A Very Brave Witch, Dear Brother, and the Bink and Gollie books. Her other children’s books include All Rivers Flow to the Sea, Countdown to Kindergarten, and Snap!. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Laguna Beach, California. You can visit her at AlisonMcGhee.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nicole

#1. I suck at writing reviews of. . . anything and this is my first review of a book on here. Shadow Baby is not long, but it took me longer to read than almost any book I've ever read. The book is narrated by Clara Winter, a girl of 11 or so. Frankly, it was hard reading a naive girls account of se......more

Goodreads review by Julie

Recommended to me by a teacher in our district because the author is from around here and the setting is right here, I reluctantly stepped in. I wasn't attacted to the cover or title, and this book isn't in our HS library, so it didn't seem like a good contender for my time. I read it for her becaus......more

Goodreads review by Becca

Well I just loved Clara. What a unique, flawed little character who lives in story and words. I could see her fully alive in the author's mind....funny, precocious and tragic. The plot left some things to be desired and whoever came up with tbe title should be slapped, but as a character study / com......more