Where Id Like to Be, Frances ORoark Dowell
Where Id Like to Be, Frances ORoark Dowell
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Where I'd Like to Be

Author: Frances O'Roark Dowell

Narrator: Denise Wilbanks

Unabridged: 4 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/08/2003

Synopsis

A ghost saved twelve-year-old Maddie’s life when she was an infant, her Granny Lane claims, so Maddie must always remember that she is special. But it’s hard to feel special when you’ve spent your life being shuttled from one foster home to another. And now that she’s at the East Tennessee Children’s Home, Maddie feels, well, less than ordinary.

Maddie can’t stop looking for a place to call home or for people who feel like home. She even makes a “book of houses,” where she glues pictures of places in which she yearns to live. Then one day, a new girl, Murphy, shows up at the Home armed with tales about exotic travels, being able to fly, and boys who recite poetry to wild horses. Maddie is enchanted . . . Maybe, just maybe, she’s found someone who feels like home and she lets her guard down. She shows Murphy her beloved scrapbook, never anticipating that this one gesture will challenge her very ideas of what home, and family, are all about.

About Frances O'Roark Dowell

Frances O’Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award; Where I’d Like to Be; The Secret Language of Girls and its sequels The Kind of Friends We Used to Be and The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away; Chicken Boy; Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Award; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Falling In; The Second Life of Abigail Walker, which received three starred reviews; Anybody Shining; Ten Miles Past Normal; Trouble the Water; the Sam the Man series; The Class; How to Build a Story; and most recently, Hazard. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on December 08, 2016

This book made me cry. And that is not unusual, even though I am a 60-year-old man. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens made me cry. At the end, not during the funny parts. But this was a book about a lonely eleven-year-old girl trying to make friends. Why should that make me cry? But it is also......more

Goodreads review by Asha on October 12, 2016

"Where I'd Like To Be" Ask any child where they'd like to be at the moment and the answer will most likely be home with whomever is their primary caregiver, but for Maddie and her ragtag crew, home is where they wish to be back at every day as they struggle to come to terms with the fact that they n......more

Goodreads review by Haley on December 22, 2015

I finally rediscovered this book after forgetting the title and I am honestly tearing up. This book shaped me as a person in ways I didn't realize until reading the description now, nine years after reading it the first time. This book describes exactly the feeling of not having anywhere that feels......more

Goodreads review by S. on September 27, 2020

I went into this book thinking that it was going to be boring and not at all a good read. Boy, was I wrong. This book was engaging from the beginning! The main character, Maddie, had such a strong personality and is such a great person. My favorite character wars definitely Ricky Ray, who was such g......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on January 12, 2014

This is my favorite book by Frances Dowell so far. I fell in love with all of the characters and had a lump in my throat by the end. I've always appreciated that Dowell doesn't wrap up her stories in neat little bows--that there's still some guess-work to be done by the reader as to what might happe......more

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