Ida B : [--and her plans to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and (possibly) save the world]

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Title:

Ida B : [--and her plans to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and (possibly) save the world]

Author:

Hannigan, Katherine, author.

Taylor, Lili.

Summary:

In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.

General Note:

Subtitle from container.

Compact disc.

Edition:

Unabridged ed.

Physical Description:

3 sound discs (ca. 72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre:

Audiobooks.

Subject Term:

Families -- Juvenile fiction.

Schools -- Juvenile fiction.

Nature -- Juvenile fiction.

Sick -- Juvenile fiction.

Cancer -- Juvenile fiction.

Orchards -- Juvenile fiction.

Geographic Term:

Wisconsin -- Juvenile fiction.

Author(s):

Taylor, Lili.

Publisher:

Random House/Listening Library,

Publication Date:

2004

ISBN:

9781400094837

Publication Information:

New York : Random House/Listening Library, p2004.

Call Number:

CDB J HANNIGA

Holds: Copies:

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Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607001815029	Juvenile Books on CDs	HANNIGA	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

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Summary

Who is Ida B. Applewood? She is a fourth grader like no other, living a life like no other, with a voice like no other, and a family like no other, and her story will resonate long after this audiobook has ended. How does Ida B. cope when outside forces--life, really--attempt to derail her and her family and her future? She enters her Black Period, and it is not pretty. But then, with the help of a patient teacher, a loyal cat and dog, her beloved apple trees, and parents who believe in the same things she does (even if they sometimes act as though they don't), the resilience that is the very essence of Ida B. triumphs . . . and Ida B. Applewood takes the hand that is extended and starts to grow up.

This first novel is both very funny and extraordinarily moving, and it introduces two shining stars, author Katherine Hanningan and Ida B. Applewood.

Summary

Ida B. Applewood believes there is never enough time for fun. That's why she's so happy to be homeschooled and to spend every free second outside with the trees and the brook. Then some not-so-great things happen in her world. Ida B has to go back to that place of Mind-Numbing, Fun-Killing Torture'school. She feels her heart getting smaller and smaller and hardening into a sharp, black stone. Can Ida B put together a plan to get things back to just-about perfect again?