Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518081 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunshine Author: Jarrett J. Krosoczka Narrator: Noah Rico, Xavier J. Krosoczka, Jaiden Meltzer, Jarrett J. Krosoczka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 16 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: The extraordinary - and extraordinarily powerful - follow-up to HEY, KIDDO. When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp forseriously ill kids and their families. Going into, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such aserious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim?But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else at Camp Sunshine: the hope and determination that gets peoplethrough the most troubled of times. Not only was he subject to some of the usual rituals that come with being a camp counselor(wilderness challenges, spooky campfire stories, an extremely stinky mascot costume), but he also got a chance to meet someextraordinary kids facing extraordinary circumstances. He learned about the captivity of illness, for sure . . . but he also learnedabout the freedom a safe space can bring.Now, in his follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Hey, Kiddo, Jarrett brings readers back to Camp Sunshine so we canmeet the campers and fellow counselors who changed the course of his life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Summer of Bitter and Sweet Author: Jen Ferguson Narrator: Julie Lumsden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: In this complex and emotionally resonant novel about a Métis girl living on the Canadian prairies, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful story about rage, secrets, and all the spectrums that make up a person—and the sweetness that can still live alongside the bitterest truth. A William C. Morris Award Honor Book and a Stonewall Award Honor Book! Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She’ll be working in her family’s ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend—whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort—and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from her biological father—a man she hoped would stay behind bars for the rest of his life—Lou immediately knows that she cannot meet him, no matter how much he insists. While King’s friendship makes Lou feel safer and warmer than she would have thought possible, when her family’s business comes under threat, she soon realizes that she can’t ignore her father forever. The Heartdrum imprint centers a wide range of intertribal voices, visions, and stories while welcoming all young readers, with an emphasis on the present and future of Indian Country and on the strength of young Native heroes. In partnership with We Need Diverse Books.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/537142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girls Who Green the World: Thirty-Four Rebel Women Out to Save Our Planet Author: Diana Kapp Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Part biography, part guidebook to the contemporary environmental movement, this book is the perfect gift for future and current activists and changemakers! Girls Who Green the World features the inspiring stories of 34 revolutionaries fighting for our future! An inspired collection of profiles, featuring environmental changemakers, social entrepreneurs, visionaries and activists.     Journalist Diana Kapp has crisscrossed this country writing for and about empowered girls, girls who expect to be leaders, founders and inventors. This book takes it a step further. It says to girls: while you’re striving to be CEOs and world leaders, consider solving the biggest challenge of our lifetime, too—because you can do both at the same time, and here are 34 women doing just that.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525824 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Moth Girl Author: Heather Kamins Narrator: Jeremy Carlisle Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 8, 2022 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Flying doesn’t always mean freedom.   Anna is a regular teenaged girl. She runs track with her best friend, gets good grades, and sometimes drinks beer at parties.   But one day at track practice, Anna falls unconscious . . . but instead of falling down, she falls up, defying gravity in the disturbing first symptom of a mysterious disease.   This begins a series of trips to the hospital that soon become Anna’s norm. She’s diagnosed with lepidopsy: a rare illness that causes symptoms reminiscent of moths: floating, attraction to light, a craving for sugar, and for an unlucky few, more dangerous physical manifestations.   Anna’s world is turned upside down, and as she learns to cope with her illness, she finds herself drifting further and further away from her former life. Her friends don’t seem to understand, running track is out of the question, and the other kids at the disease clinic she attends once a week are a cruel reminder that things will never be the same.   From debut author Heather Kamins comes a beautiful and evocative story about one girl’s journey of choosing who she wants to be--in a life she never planned for.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman Author: Kristen R. Lee Narrator: Kacie Rogers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: A striking debut novel about a college freshman grappling with the challenges of attending an elite university with a disturbing racist history, which may not be as distant as it seems. 'A searing debut.” –Entertainment Weekly Savannah Howard thought everyone followed the same checklist to get into Wooddale University: - Take the hardest classes - Get perfect grades - Give up a social life to score a full ride to a top school   But now that she’s on campus, it’s clear there’s a different rule book. Take student body president, campus royalty, and racist jerk Lucas Cunningham. It’s no secret money bought his acceptance letter. And he’s not the only one. Savannah tries to keep to head down, but when the statue of the university’s first Black president is vandalized, how can she look away? Someone has to put a stop to the injustice. But will telling the truth about Wooddale’s racist past cost Savannah her own future?   First-time novelist Kristen R. Lee delivers a page-turning, thought-provoking story that exposes racism and hypocrisy on college campuses, and champions those who refuse to let it continue.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/537702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sex Education: A Guide to Life: The No Nonsense Sex Education You Always Wanted Author: Jordan Paramor Narrator: Nneka Okoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: The official, must-have modern fully fleshed out guide to relationships, sex, and much more from the original Netflix series, Sex Education. Questioning your body? Not sure about how you feel? Worried if that thing is normal? Unlikely educator Otis Milburn and his friends offer frank, feminist, and positive guidance in this life-changing book. Cover everything from knowing your anatomy, feeling confident about how you look, and understanding how you feel, along with the topics of consent, sexuality, and the minefield that is modern love--this guide answers all the questions you are too scared to ask, in a language you will understand. With insight from your favorite Sex Education characters, quotes to live your life by, therapy notes, tips, takeaways, and a whole lot of fun, this book is both a companion to the popular Netflix original series and a practical guide to navigating the real world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525487 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Real as It Gets Series: #3 of Rumor Central Author: Reshonda Tate Billingsley Narrator: Jasmin Walker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: She can uncover the biggest celebrity secrets. But now Maya Morgan's hottest story ever is way too up-close-and-personal …For once, everything in Maya's life is falling perfectly into place. She's getting serious media cred uncovering the source of a new designer drug doing major glitterati damage. And the new man in her life is giving Maya all the cool bling and attention she craves off-camera. But the truth behind her scoop is about to cut too close to home—and put Maya and her family in the crosshairs. Soon, she'll have to decide just how far she can afford to go to save her family, her career … and herself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/503648 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Diamond Keeper Author: Jeannie Mobley Narrator: Caroline Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 16, 2021 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: A thrilling tale of the elusive Hope Diamond's journey across Europe during the French Revolution, with gorgeous, absorbing writing from Jeannie Mobley! Eighteen-year-old Claudie Durand's future is planned. She'll take over the family inn, watch her much prettier younger sister, Mathilde, married off to the butcher's son, and live out her days alone, without the hope of finding a love of her own. Her mother ran off to the cloister when she was young, and her gruff, abusive father has deemed her unmarriageable, a nuisance, and only good for hard labor. But outside their small village in Brittany, a revolution is brewing. When the Army of the Republic seizes their town, and Claudie finds herself at the center of the conspiracy, she and Mathilde must flee their sheltered life and take up a cause that, up till now, had always seemed like a distant conflict. As the sisters carry out a dangerous mission for the resistance: delivering a precious item to the mysterious Rooster of Rennes--Claudie's conscience is torn between the longing to return to her predictable, lonely existence and the desire to carve out a new future, reaching for the life--and love--she never dared dream of but knew deep down she truly deserved.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome Author: Ariel Henley Narrator: Ariel Henley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: There was danger in the kind of beauty I was desperate to achieve.At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan Henley were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome—a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive it.Growing up, Ariel and her sister endured numerous medical procedures to keep them alive. Doctors expanded the twins’ skulls and broke bones to make room for their growing organs. After each surgery, the sisters felt like strangers to each other, unable to recognize themselves in the mirror. Their case attracted international attention. A French fashion magazine said Ariel and Zan “resembled the works of Picasso,” as if they were abstract paintings, not girls just trying to survive.Later, plastic surgeons cut and trimmed and tugged their faces toward a tenuous aesthetic ideal. The girls dreamed of appearing “beautiful” but would settle for “normal.”Fighting for acceptance was a daily chore. Between besting middle school bullies, becoming a cheerleader in high school, and finding her literary voice in college, Ariel learned to navigate a beauty-obsessed world with a facial disfigurement to become the woman she is today.From a resonant new voice, here is an unforgettable young adult memoir about beauty, sisterhood, and the strength it takes to put your life—and yourself—back together, time and time again.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/524620 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy Author: Crystal M. Fleming Narrator: Crystal M. Fleming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: October 19, 2021 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Why are white supremacists still openly marching in the United States? Why are undocumented children of color separated from their families and housed in cages? Where did racism come from? Why hasn’t it already disappeared? And what can young people do about it?Rise Up! breaks down the origins of racial injustice and its continued impact today, connecting dots between the past and present. By including contemporary examples ripped from headlines and actionable ways young people can help create a more inclusive world, sociologist Crystal Fleming shares the knowledge and values that unite all antiracists: compassion, solidarity, respect, and courage in the face of adversity.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sex Education: The Road Trip Author: Katy Birchall Narrator: Aysha Kala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: The only official Sex Education novel. When the screen binge is over, return to the world of Moordale with a brand-new story featuring the show's most popular characters. Maeve gets an unexpected call from her brother Sean. It's no surprise to her that he is in trouble again. But she's the only family he's got, so she must saddle up and ride to the rescue. Or at least, scrounge a lift from Aimee and drive there. . . . Otis and Eric insist they can help, and Maeve's mission becomes a summer holiday road trip. Sean's been partying with a group of decadent rich kids who have no accused him of a crime. The evidence against him is pretty damning. Trying to clear his name, Maeve and friends integrate themselves into the rich kids' circle--it's time to go undercover. Thanks to Eric's dance floor moves, Aimee's easy charm, and Otis's ability to offer good advice, they get to know the group. And they soon discover that Sean is not the only one with a motive for getting even with beautiful party girl Tabitha. This standalone YA/crossover story has everything fans love about the show: favorite characters with real emotional depth, no-holds-barred honesty about teenage relationships, brilliant humor, and a great new storyline, plus a compelling whodunit at its heart.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Things We Couldn't Say Author: Jay Coles Narrator: Sheldon Best Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: September 21, 2021 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: From one of the brightest and most acclaimed new lights in YA fiction, a fantastic new novel about a bi Black boy finding firstlove . . . and facing the return of the mother who abandoned his preacher family when he was nine. There's always been a hole in Gio's life. Not because he's into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinkingissues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape of his birth mom,who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he never heard a word from her . . . andnow, just as he's started to get his life together, she's back.It's hard for Gio to know what to do. Can he forgive her like she wants to be forgiven? Or should he tell her she lost her chanceto be in his life? Complicating things further, Gio's started to hang out with David, a new guy on the basketball team. Are theyfriends? More than friends? At first, Gio's not sure . . . especially because he's not sure what he wants from anyone right now.There are no easy answers to love -- whether it's family love or friend love or romantic love. In Things We Couldn't Say, Jay Coles,acclaimed author of Tyler Johnson Was Here, shows us a guy trying to navigate love in all its ambiguity -- hoping at the other endhe'll be able to figure out who is and who he should be.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/536648 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Brutal Justice Author: Jess Corban Narrator: Melie Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 17, 2021 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Protect the weak. Safety for all. Power without virtue is tyranny. Nedé has a new Apprentice, and now Reina Pierce must come to grips with what she sacrificed to secure Matriarch Teera’s favor. As secrets unfold and danger mounts, Reina will test the bounds of trust and be forced to answer the question that has haunted her since her first night in the jungle: Which is better―Gentle or Brute? And how far will she go to ensure tyranny is eradicated from Nedé? In this fast-paced conclusion to the Nedé Rising series, A Brutal Justice weaves action, romance, and provocative questions into a finale that readers won’t be able to put down.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506108 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mythic Koda Rose Author: Jennifer Nissley Narrator: Imani Jade Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 13, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: In the spirit of Nina LaCour and Adam Silvera, this offbeat and romantic debut novel follows a teen girl whose desire to find out more about her late rock star father brings her closer to the last person she expected. Everything Koda Rose knows about her father she’s learned from other people. Moving to New York City with her mom won’t change that, even if New York was Mack Grady’s city—where he became famous, where he wrote his music, and also where he died. Koda has more important things on her mind. Like how she’s in love with her best friend, Lindsay, and doesn’t have the courage to tell her. Agonizing over how to confess her feelings leads Koda to explore Mack’s enigmatic history in search of answers. She tracks down her dad’s band mate and ex-girlfriend, Sadie Pasquale, and finds herself becoming rapidly obsessed with the mercurial musician. As Koda and Sadie’s complicated bond deepens, they are both forced to grapple with the black hole Mack left behind, or get sucked in themselves.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/513832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aslan: Running Joy Author: Kristin Kaldahl Narrator: Brittany Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Award-winning author and professional dog agility trainer Kristin Kaldahl weaves an authentic story of reclamation and simple love within the thrilling backdrop of one of the world's fastest growing canine sports—agility. For fourteen-year-old Krissy, her new life maxim is pretty sad: First choices out. Second choices in. It's been that way since dialysis left her disabled. Her limitations went from none to a ton, and now they stand in the way of her dream—to compete in dog agility with her runty Sheltie pup, Aslan. Krissy has seen videos of agility handlers sprinting, spinning, and twisting as they race with their dogs through the intricate obstacle courses. It's a beautiful sport. Like dance. Like art. And surely impossible for someone like her. Her suspicions are confirmed when an agility instructor tells Krissy that her inability to run will keep Aslan from successfully competing against other lightning-fast agility teams. The instructor strongly suggests Krissy choose a less physically demanding second-choice dog sport instead. Second choices—once again. And on top of all that, Krissy is pretty sure she doesn't even like her own dog.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509175 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ghosts We Keep Author: Mason Deaver Narrator: Ian Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Everything happens for a reason. At least that's what everyone keeps telling Liam Cooper after his older brother Ethan is killed suddenly in a hit-and-run. Feeling more alone and isolated than ever, Liam has to not only learn to face the world without one of the people he loved the most, but also face the fading relationships of his two best friends in the process. Soon, Liam finds themself spending time with Ethan's best friend, Marcus, who might just be the only person that seems to know exactly what they're going through-for better and for worse. The Ghosts We Keep is an achingly honest portrayal of grief. But it is also about why we live. Why we have to keep moving on, and why we should.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/520253 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lucky Girl Author: Jamie Pacton Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 31, 2021 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: 58,643,129. That's how many dollars seventeen-year-old Fortuna Jane Belleweather just won in the lotto jackpot. It's also about how many reasons she has for not coming forward to claim her prize. Problem #1: Jane is still a minor, and if anyone discovers she bought the ticket underage, she'll either have to forfeit the ticket or worse... Problem #2: Let her hoarder mother cash it. The last thing Jane's mom needs is millions of dollars to buy more junk. Then... Problem #3: Jane's best friend, aspiring journalist Brandon Kim, declares on the news that he's going to find the lucky winner. It's one thing to keep her secret from the town; it's another thing entirely to lie to her best friend. Especially when... Problem #4: Jane's ex-boyfriend, Holden, is suddenly back in her life, and he has big ideas about what he'd do with the prize money. As suspicion and jealousy turn neighbor against neighbor and no good options for cashing the ticket come forward, Jane begins to wonder if this much money might actually be a bad thing.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/505878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bleak: A Story of Bullying, Rage, and Survival Author: Benjamin Honeycutt Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 3, 2021 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: “Why did he come back?" Tommy Tate finished his sophomore year alone at home, suspended from Latimer High School. Hated, dangerous, and accused of plotting to murder a classmate, Tommy was considered a monster by his peers and community. He swore that he would never step foot in LHS again. But now it’s fall, and after a summer of silence, Tommy arrives for the first day of school, leaving everyone to ask - why did he come back?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/520998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Denim Diaries 6: Lying to Live Series: #6 of The Denim Diaries Series Author: Darrien Lee Narrator: Mishi Lachappelle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 29 minutes Release date: January 26, 2021 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Denim Mitchell is excited to learn that she’s been selected to tutor students after school. Not only will this earn her extra credit in her honors classes, but it will also look good on her college applications. Fourteen-year-old Julius Graham enjoys working with his new tutor, but when he becomes the only witness to a horrific crime in his neighborhood, Julius shuts down emotionally. He hasn’t told anyone what he saw, but with the detectives hanging around his house asking questions, he fears that it’s only a matter of time before the murderer comes looking for him. Withdrawn and scared, Julius realizes that he has to tell someone his secret, but at what cost? Will Denim become his voice of reason and convince him to do the right thing, or will his secret put not only his family at risk, but Denim as well?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/520993 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sister Sister Series: #3 of The Babygirl Dramas Author: Babygirl Daniels Narrator: Samantha Moon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date: January 26, 2021 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Tara and Mya are identical twins, but on the inside they are complete opposites. Mya’s the most popular girl in school—she’s the hood superstar. Many times Tara feels like she’s lost in her sister’s shadow, but when a tragedy occurs and Tara steps into Mya’s shoes, she discovers a side of her sister that she never knew about. Tara quickly learns that it’s not easy being the popular girl—sometimes it’s better just to be yourself. But is it too late for Tara to switch back?