Shelter

Name: Shelter
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Christie Matheson
ISBN: 9798855529784

Author: Christie Matheson

Narrator: Gail Shalan

Unabridged: 3 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/21/2024

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

Synopsis

A heart-wrenching middle grade debut that considers homelessness from one girl's perspective and explores deep truths about the resounding impact of empathy. Perfect for fans of One for the Murphys and Paper Things.

Fifth grade can be tough for anyone. There are cliques and mean kids and homework and surprise math tests. But after tragedy strikes her family, almost-eleven-year-old Maya has a painful secret that makes many days feel nearly impossible.

And today might be Maya's toughest yet. Her family is on edge, she needs to travel alone across the city, a bully is out to get her, and Maya has to face this winter's biggest rainstorm without a coat or an umbrella.

But even on the rainiest days, there's hope that the sun will come out soon.

Emotional and compassionate, Shelter looks at homelessness through one girl's eyes and explores the power of empathy, friendship, and love.

About Christie Matheson

Christie Matheson is the author of Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style and coauthor of Wine Mondays, The Confetti Cakes Cookbook, Confetti Cakes for Kids, Tea Party, and Vineyard Harvest. She is a regular contributor to such publications as the Boston Globe Magazine, Cooking Light, Boston, Yankee, Continental, San Francisco, and and DailyCandy.com. For two years she hosted a weekly television segment called "Trend Tracker" on the UPN Morning Show, and she is a frequent guest on the television show Chronicle as well as on Martha Stewart Radio. Matheson lives in San Francisco, California, and Boston, Massachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Norma on November 20, 2019

( Format : Audiobook ) "A pretty little thing." The premise behind Shelter is excellent but, sadly, the execution almost totally negates the impact of the story and it certainly fails to live up to the 'gripping suspense' part of the subtitle. Some thirteen years prior to the main events of the novel......more

Goodreads review by Deedra on January 30, 2020

This was a good story.A man loses his wife and daughter to a horrible home break in.A few yeras later another man and his daughter take shelter in this mans NEW house in a snow storm.Watching from afar on his devices,Jake sees a man and is ready to hurt anyone in his house. Narration by J Bruce McRe......more

Goodreads review by Sadie on June 06, 2019

This would be a good episode on some crime show! (Like a Bones episode - but of course no little girl in the house, and if Gabriel had died!)......more

Goodreads review by Amber on August 07, 2019

Pretty unique storyline. You start off with Jake's wife Sharon and their daughter Georgie. Tragedy strikes and Jake rebuilds his life some time later. Another father and his child are caught in a blizzard and find themselves in need of help and try and seek refuge in Jake's state of the art million......more

Goodreads review by Jerrod on June 29, 2019

This book was pretty good. I wasn't sure where it was going at first, but as I got more into the story it became blatantly obvious that Gabriel and Jake were going to cross paths. Kind of like two stories in one and brilliantly done. There were a few grammatical errors, but not too bad overall and t......more