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Listen! |  | Author: Stephanie S. Tolan
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 3660080
Format: Large Print
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 221
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0786290234
EAN: 9780786290239
ASIN: 0786290234
Publication Date: October 18, 2006
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Product Description
Learning to walk again is the easy part. For twelve-year-old Charley, recovering from the accident that shattered her leg is nowhere near as difficult as facing the solitude of a summer without her best friend and with a father who does nothing, now, but work. Solitude means time to think, time to hear for the first time the awful silence left in her world two years ago by her mother's death. But the summer holds a surprise for Charley, in the form of a mysterious dog who appears in the woods across the lake from her home. In order to connect with this wild spirit she names Coyote, Charley will have to do more than just walk. She will have to follow Coyote into the heart of her memories: the woods her mother loved so much. And she will have to learn to listen past the silence. This unsentimental, unforgettable story comes straight from the heart of Newbery Honor author Stephanie S. Tolan. As she describes Charley's difficult emotional and physical journey, she weaves together themes of nature, family, and love into a complex and powerful portrait of recovery.
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A wonderful story! June 28, 2009
RI Deb
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I mentor a 6th grade reading class for "reluctant" readers. When I started this book with the group I was immediately captivated by the story the theme. The main character who had lost her mother and then had physical problems to overcome due to an accident, bonded with a stray dog. The kids loved the book and I know a young woman in very similar circumstances - even bought an extra copy to send her. She also fell in love with the story and message that pain can fade and hope can be restored.
My daughter is RAVING over this book! June 23, 2009
literary mom in the Valley (San Fernando Valley, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My 11-year-old daughter is dictating this to me: "This is one of the best books I have ever read. It is somewhat emotional, pulls you in, and it just makes you feel like you were there and feeling what this person is feeling. It is amazing. This is somewhat of an epic journey filled with love and companionship of how a girl changes on the inside and how she copes with a terrible accident and loss." She is saying that she wants to buy this book right away, after getting it from the library, because she wants to read it again immediately and she's asking whether she can read some to me every night because she wants to share it with me. I can't remember her being this excited about a book.
CGE Student Review June 1, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My favorite book is Listen by Stephanie S. Tolan. Other books written by Stephanie are:
Welcome To the Ark
Flight of the Raven
Surviving the Applewhites
I think the genre of this story is realistic fiction and the book theme is overcoming challenges and friendship.
Stephanie writs about bonds, In Listen is a bond between dog and girl and I think in Surviving the Applewhites is a bond between a bad kid and a crazy family. The main characters are Charley and Cyote. My favorite character is Charley because she is a fighter she never backs down she is determined she overcomes so many challenges.
Charley is a girl whose mom died, who has a rod in her leg, and who sees a wild dog and needs to "tame" it. This is an important seen from the book.
It is sitting tall and rock still on a smooth patch of bare red dirt at the base of a big sweet gum tree in the woods, barely visible between the scrubby bushes and the tangle of honeysuckle vine that edge the road. It is red-gold, almost the collar of the ground it is sitting on, its head high, its dark ears pricked sharply in her direction. The dog's eyes, dark in a narrow, golden face, are looking directly at her. She feels a kind of tremor, as if an electric shock has passed from the dog to her and back again.
I highly recommend this book to people who like to read chapter books. I like this book because it is about friendship between a girl and a dog.
Tugging on the "leash" of your heartstrings! January 25, 2009
Jodip8 (Tampa, FL United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As an elementary school teacher, I read many, many children's books. Many of the books I've read lately have been a bit too silly and simplistic. This isn't one of those.
The author, Ms. Tolan, has an exquisite way of describing the feelings and experiences of the main character, Charley, a young girl with a lot to be depressed about. She's suffered great losses, and yet this book is about hope and healing. As I've told several of my students who've chosen to read this book, you have to get through the first two chapters to notice the improvement in Charley's mood and situation. Luckily for the reader, Ms. Tolan has a magical skill of making you feel like you're THERE, in the story, and that is enticement enough to stick with the book. You can see, hear, smell, touch and experience the surroundings "pictured" by her writing. Like a good friend, the reader needs to stand by Charley as she explains why she's in this state of mind, and watch her as she redeems and tames Coyote, and he redeems her!
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in sharing great writing with kids. You don't even need to share it at all. It's a great story on it's own!
A kid's review November 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Listen is a story about a girl named Charley and a dog named Coyote. Charly wants to catch Coyote. I love Coyote because he goes on a new adventure every day. My favorite part is when Charly and her friend's dog named Sadie go on a walk. Coyote goes on a walk and show's them where to go. I liked the book because every they get a step closer.
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