All Alone in the Universe [Req] - Lynne Rae Perkins

Category: Children, General Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Friendship Middle grade
Written by Lynne Rae Perkins
Read by Hope Davis
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
“Before last summer Maureen and I were best friends….At least I think we were. I don’t know what happened exactly. As some people who get hit by trucks sometimes say,’I didn’t see anything coming.’” When her best friend since the third grade starts acting as though Debbie doesn’t exist, Debbie finds out the hard way that life can be a lonesome place. But in the end the heroine of this wryly funny coming-of-age story–a girl who lives in a house covered with stuff that is supposed to look like bricks but is just a fake brick pattern–discovers that even the hourly tragedies of junior high school can have silver linings, just as a house covered with Insul-Brick can protect a real home. This first novel shines–fun, engrossing, bittersweet, and wonderfully unpredictable.
2hrs 55min
“Before last summer Maureen and I were best friends….At least I think we were. I don’t know what happened exactly. As some people who get hit by trucks sometimes say,’I didn’t see anything coming.’” When her best friend since the third grade starts acting as though Debbie doesn’t exist, Debbie finds out the hard way that life can be a lonesome place. But in the end the heroine of this wryly funny coming-of-age story–a girl who lives in a house covered with stuff that is supposed to look like bricks but is just a fake brick pattern–discovers that even the hourly tragedies of junior high school can have silver linings, just as a house covered with Insul-Brick can protect a real home. This first novel shines–fun, engrossing, bittersweet, and wonderfully unpredictable.

2hrs 55min