04123cam a2200457 4500 231555778 TxAuBib 20150531120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307915955 0307915956 5aacd228-7fc4-4388-b77a-5ac51dd155c0 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 460383 OverDrive (Product ID) 460383 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Schmidt, Gary D. Okay for Now [Libby]. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2011. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 256MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 256MB. Historical Fiction. Young Adult Fiction. Doug Swieteck, who has just moved to a new town and is struggling with an abusive father, is trying to figure out who he is. Lincoln Hoppe has no trouble finding a voice for the hero or accenting the novel's dark, lyrical tone. The first-person point of view reaches out to involve listeners in the story, and Hoppe makes the most of these invitations. He captures Doug's indecision--will he adopt the hard tones of his father and older brother or his mother's tenderness? Hoppe expresses Doug's attempts to cope with abuse as well as with his burgeoning creativity and the first stirrings of love. Just as skillfully, Hoppe delivers meaningful depictions of the minor characters. His considerable talents paint a vivid portrait of a troubled family and an unforgettable hero. S.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. HTML:"The Dump" is what Doug Swieteck calls his new home in upstate New York. He lands there in the summer of 1968, when the Apollo space missions are under way, Joe Pepitone is slugging for the New York Yankees, and the Vietnam War is raging. At home he lives with a father who has lost his way and a brother accused of robbery. And Doug's oldest brother is returning from Vietnam. Who knows what wounds his missions have given him?<br /> But Doug has his own mission, too, and it begins when he first sees the plates of John James Audubon's Birds of America at the local library. His mission will lead him to Lil Spicer, who shows him how to drink a really cold Coke, to Mrs. Windermere, who drags him to a theater opening, and to the customers of his Saturday grocery deliveries, who together will open a world as strange to him as the lunar landscape.<br /> Swieteck, who first appeared in Gary D. Schmidt's Newbery Honor book <i>The Wednesday Wars</i>, will discover the transforming power of art over disaster in a story about creativity and loss, love and recovery, and survival. Media Type: Audiobook. National Book Award Finalist. Notable Children's Books. Odyssey Award Honor. Audie Award Nominee. Notable Children's Recordings. Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults. Best Fiction for Young Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-01 20:00:02. Hoppe, Lincoln. http://sandoval.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=5aacd228-7fc4-4388-b77a-5ac51dd155c0 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/460383-OkayForNow.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/460383-OkayForNow.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5AACD228-7FC4-4388-B77A-5AC51DD155C0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/460383-OkayForNow.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/460383-OkayForNow.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5AACD228-7FC4-4388-B77A-5AC51DD155C0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)