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An Audio Editor’s Picks: Home-From-School Listens for Middle Grade & YA Listeners March 17, 2020

by Emily Parliman, Editor

Whether your teen is attending classes online or taking a break from classes altogether, it’s smart to enrich any downtime with supplementary content. We’ve assembled a list of audiobook recommendations to help bridge the weeks between classes. On our list you’ll find engaging nonfiction that has tie-ins to common school syllabi, can’t-go-wrong classics, frequently “required reading,” and fast-paced historical fiction. READ MORE

Tags: Adenrele Ojo, Albert Marrin, Arthur Morey, Bryan Stevenson, Candace Fleming, Cassandra Morris, Cynthia Levinson, Damaras Obi, Erin Spencer, Fatal Throne, Fault Lines in the Constitution, Jim Frangione, jorjeana marie, Just Mercy, Katherine Peterson, Kimberly Farr, lyddie, Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Marc Cashman, Mark Bramhall, Melba Sibrel, Michael Crouch, Roses and Radicals, Ruta Sepyts, salt to the sea, Sanford Levinson, Steve Sheinkin, Susan Zimet, The Family Romanov, The Notorious Benedict Arnold, Todd Hasak-Lowy, TURNING 15 ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM, Uprooted, Very Very Very Dreadful, Will Damron

TURNING 15 ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM Q&A with narrator Damaras Obi and director Ally Sheedy May 2, 2017

by Emily Parliman, Editor at Listening Library

TURNING 15 ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM is an award-winning memoir by Lynda Blackmon Lowery who, at age 15, was the youngest person to walk all the way from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, as part of the 1965 Selma Rights Voting March. The book was adapted for stage by director Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire) and actress Damaras Obi. Lynda told WMAC Northeast Public Radio: “The first time I saw [Damaras] I was in awe. This girl is awesome.” We were lucky enough to have Damaras narrate the audiobook, with Ally directing. Here they discuss what it was like to adapt the memoir into a play, and then collaborate on the audiobook: READ MORE

Tags: Ally Sheedy, Black History Month, Civil Rights, Damaras Obi, Hear Diversity, Lynda Blackmon Lowery, TURNING 15 ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM