Time Pieces

Name: Time Pieces
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Virginia Hamilton
ISBN: 9781455105052

Author: Virginia Hamilton

Narrator: Lisa Renee' Pitts

Unabridged: 3 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/27/2005

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

In this quietly beautiful comingofage story, elevenyearold Valena lives with her family in rural Ohio where she and her cousin share experiences such as surviving a tornado and going to an amazing circus. Yet Valena lives in both the present and the past as she struggles with racism in her daily life and listens to and learns from her mothers tales of her familys proud history. Moving backward and forward in time, these pieces of Valenas life blend to form an extraordinary portrait of the ties that bind a family together over generations.

About Virginia Hamilton

Virginia Hamilton (1936–2002) grew up in rural Ohio among an extended family and generations of storytellers. Her grandfather, Levi Perry, was brought by his mother from Virginia slavery to Ohio via the Underground Railroad. She received nearly every award in the field of children’s literature, including the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the Newbery Medal, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and the Coretta Scott King Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Zoe on August 18, 2011

We listened to this as an audiobook in the car. I liked it more than the kids did, but I think they still got a lot out of it. The style is very poetic, blending the past and the present, with lots of descriptive passages about strange weather (the aurora borealis, a tornado) and the African slave e......more

Goodreads review by Madlyn on July 01, 2016

Okay book......more

Goodreads review by S10_Matthew on July 12, 2010

For grades 2-6, audio CD......more

Goodreads review by Becky on March 12, 2023

Seemingly disjointed at times, but the last chapter brings everything together. I feel a child would become confused easily. Wish I knew going on it was semi autobiographical, as that somewhat changed my perspective. Cw: death of an animal......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on January 07, 2022

Story of changes and tellings, which were choppy with incomplete sentences. This took me a long time to read.......more