The Only Black Girls in Town
Read by
Jeanette Illidge
Release:
03/10/2020
Release:
03/10/2020
Runtime:
7h 29m
Runtime:
7h 29m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“Challenges stereotypes in a tale of friendship…Jeanette Illidge’s conversational narration matches the prose well. Like most audiobook narrators of middle grade and young adult fiction, Illidge reads with the brightness of an adolescent.”
Literary Hub (audio review)
A Literary Hub Pick of Best Audiobooks by Black Women
From award-winning YA author Brandy Colbert comes a debut middle-grade novel about the only two Black girls in town who discover a collection of hidden journals revealing shocking secrets of the past.
Beach-loving surfer Alberta has been the only Black girl in town for years. Alberta's best friend, Laramie, is the closest thing she has to a sister, but there are some things even Laramie can't understand. When the bed and breakfast across the street finds new owners, Alberta is ecstatic to learn the family is black—and they have a 12-year-old daughter just like her.
Alberta is positive she and the new girl, Edie, will be fast friends. But while Alberta loves being a California girl, Edie misses her native Brooklyn and finds it hard to adapt to small-town living.
When the girls discover a box of old journals in Edie's attic, they team up to figure out exactly who's behind them and why they got left behind. Soon they discover shocking and painful secrets of the past and learn that nothing is quite what it seems.
Beach-loving surfer Alberta has been the only Black girl in town for years. Alberta's best friend, Laramie, is the closest thing she has to a sister, but there are some things even Laramie can't understand. When the bed and breakfast across the street finds new owners, Alberta is ecstatic to learn the family is black—and they have a 12-year-old daughter just like her.
Alberta is positive she and the new girl, Edie, will be fast friends. But while Alberta loves being a California girl, Edie misses her native Brooklyn and finds it hard to adapt to small-town living.
When the girls discover a box of old journals in Edie's attic, they team up to figure out exactly who's behind them and why they got left behind. Soon they discover shocking and painful secrets of the past and learn that nothing is quite what it seems.
Release:
2020-03-10
2020-03-10
Runtime:
Runtime:
7h 29m
7h 29m
Format:
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.53 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781549184277
9781549157394
Publisher:
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group
Praise