

The Land of Forgotten Girls
Author: Erin Entrada Kelly
Narrator: LuLu Lam
Unabridged: 5 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Published: 03/01/2016
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes
Author: Erin Entrada Kelly
Narrator: LuLu Lam
Unabridged: 5 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Published: 03/01/2016
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes
Erin Entrada Kelly is the author of the Newbery Medal–winning novels Hello, Universe and The First State of Being, which was also named a finalist for the National Book Award. She received a Newbery Honor for her acclaimed novel We Dream of Space. Erin Entrada Kelly grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and now lives in Delaware. She teaches in the MFA in writing for children and young adults program at Hamline University. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Philippines Free Press Literary Award for Short Fiction and the Pushcart Prize. Before becoming a children’s author, Erin worked as a journalist and magazine editor and received numerous awards for community service journalism, feature writing, and editing from the Louisiana Press Association and the Associated Press.Erin Entrada Kelly’s debut novel, Blackbird Fly, was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, an ALSC Notable Book, and an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor Book. She is also the author of The Land of Forgotten Girls, winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature; You Go First, an Indie Next Pick; Lalani of the Distant Sea, an Indie Next Pick; Those Kids from Fawn Creek, named to numerous best-of-the-year lists; and five popular novels for younger readers, Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey, Surely Surely Marisol Rainey, Only Only Marisol Rainey, Your Turn Marisol Rainey, and Felix Powell, Boy Dog, which she also illustrated.
This book is seriously amazing. It's the kind of novel that exudes hope and faith and is essentially destined to become a classic. I immediately loved Soledad (and her little sister Ming) and I rooted for them to be able to get away from their stepmother somehow. (Even knowing that there's really no......more
This book was about a girl named Sol and her sister, Ming. Sol had another sister, before Ming, that died from drowning in the Philippines. Sol thinks that it was all her fault. Sol's mother also died so now she lives with her dad and her evil stepmother, Vea. They moved to Louisiana together but So......more
Erin Entrada Kelly's career as a novelist started fast with two books in two years, leading up to the monster success of her third novel (Hello, Universe), which won the Newbery Medal. The second of those first two books, The Land of Forgotten Girls, mines Ms. Kelly's Filipino family history for a f......more
Oh man, this book broke my heart. It's a little bit of a modern fairy tale but without the magic (although these two imaginative sisters like to imagine lots of magic). Sol and her little sister were born in the Philippines but came to American with their father and stepmother after their mom died.......more