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    Miracle's Boys

    Written by Jacqueline Woodson

    Narrated by Dule Hill

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    Nothing is like it used to be. If it were, Mama would still be alive. Papa wouldn’t have died. And Charlie would still be the same old loving big brother to 13-year-old Lafayette, not a hostile stranger, just back from doing time at a correctional facility. Oldest brother, Ty’ree, would have gone to college, instead of having to work full-time to support the three of them. And Lafayette wouldn’t be so full of questions, like why Mama had to die, why Charlie hates him so much now, and how they’re all supposed to survive these times together when so much seems to be set against them.

    Jacqueline Woodson brings us the story of three remarkable young men—brothers who have only each other to rely on and must decide whether they’ll work with that or let it tear them apart.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 26, 2006
    ISBN9780307915276
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    Miracle's Boys
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    Jacqueline Woodson

    Jacqueline Woodson is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award, and she was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming won the National Book Award, as well as the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, and the NAACP Image Award. She is also the author of the novels Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Her dozens of books for young readers include Before the Ever Afterr, New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me, Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster, and the picture book Each Kindness, which won the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award.

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    • 4/5
      Very moving story for middle graders about brothers and grief
    • 5/5
      This is a very short novel and it is very specific and purposed focused in on a very specific time in the lives of 3 brothers. It is powerful and heartbreaking, but also heartfelt. It is a story of brotherhood - the family kind - and not giving up.Warning: Deals with the processing of the death of one's parents.
    • 3/5
      The eldest of three brothers chooses to take responsibility for his younger brothers when both parents die.The reader cheers for the young man as he does his best to understand the dynamics of the family and watches as the middle child returns from prison a changed man. Angry, belligerent and striking out, the eldest brother grieves as he tries to stop this child from continuing a path of destruction.Written from the perspective of the youngest child, the story is touching and heartfelt.Everything this author writes is marvelous!
    • 5/5
      This book was heartbreaking in the most wonderful way. It wasn’t heavy handed or overly dramatic. It was a realistic portrayal of growing up poor in an urban area. The aspect I liked most about this book is that the three main characters are boys and yet they have FEELINGS. Real emotions. They may not show them outwardly but they’re there. I think that boys reading this will appreciate knowing that they themselves are not the only ones with feelings and insecurities. Even the tough middle brother with a criminal history feels deep sadness, not just anger (the one emotion boys are allowed to express in this world without fear of being made fun of).This book has won several awards, including the Coretta Scott King award, most deservedly so. I recommend it to anyone – young and old – but to especially boys who want to add some variety to their reading life apart from the goofy world of Wimpy Kid and Captain Underpants.
    • 3/5
      Too sad for me currently - I might have liked it better at another point in time, but interesting and enjoyable none the less.
    • 5/5
      The oldest of three brothers goes to work full time instead of going to college in an effort to keep them all together after their mother dies. The middle child ends up going to a correctional facility and comes back a stranger to the other two.This book may be especially appealing to African American and Latino boys since the main characters are from those two ethnic backgrounds. In general, the book is apropriate for all middle school readers and may appeal to some high school readers.
    • 2/5
      Three teenaged brothers are orphaned when their mother dies of complications with diabetes. They struggle to survive and make good choices under the care and instruction of their older brother Tyree.