04120cam a2200409 4500 231516216 TxAuBib 20150531120000.0 ||||||s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781481544504 1481544500 bc2b299f-22ed-4427-84e3-dca77f1bcc10 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 163460 OverDrive (Product ID) 9781982485269 163460 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Alexie, Sherman, 1966- Flight [Libby]. Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2008. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 129MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 129MB. Fiction. Literature. “Captivating…one quickly surrenders to Zits's voice, which elegantly mixes free-floating young adult cynicism with a charged, idiosyncratic view of American history. Alexie plunges the book into bracing depths.”. Publishers Weekly. Fifteen-year-old "Zits" has outlasted foster home after foster home. Few notice him, let alone care about him. Then Zits finds himself with several guns in his pockets and a choice to make. But at the exact moment of decision, he is thrust into another dimension and travels back in time. Adam Beach's narration is spot-on for a back-talking, unsure, acerbic, wounded teen trying to learn about hate and love. His narration stays attuned to the pace, quickening or slowing with Zits's various encounters. Beach isn't as adept with voices for the people whom Zits meets along the way, but it's the main character's travels and point of view that matter. It's a moving, gripping, engaging, and funny journey, one worth taking to see how a troubled teen ends up. M.B. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. HTML:<p>Flight is the hilarious and tragic story of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity. With powerful, swift prose, Flight follows the troubled teenager as he learns that violence is not the answer.</p> <p>The journey begins as he's about to commit a massive act of violence. At the moment of decision, he finds himself shot back through time to resurface in the body of an FBI agent during the civil-rights era. It's only the first stop. He continues traveling back to inhabit the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Bighorn and then rides with an 1800s Indian tracker before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. During these furious travels, his refrain is: "Who's to judge?" and "I don't understand humans." When he returns to his own life, he is transformed by all he's seen.</p> <p>This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant—making us laugh while breaking our hearts. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, Flight is irrepressible, fearless, and again, groundbreaking Alexie.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Best Fiction for Young Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-01 20:00:02. Beach, Adam, 1972- http://sandoval.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=bc2b299f-22ed-4427-84e3-dca77f1bcc10 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/163460-Flight.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/163460-Flight.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=BC2B299F-22ED-4427-84E3-DCA77F1BCC10&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/163460-Flight.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/163460-Flight.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=BC2B299F-22ED-4427-84E3-DCA77F1BCC10&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)