Jennifer Richard Jacobson has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators. The most-rated is Small as an Elephant.
Andy Shane & the Very Bossy Dolores Starbuckle / Andy Shane & the Pumpkin Trick
Summary
Short chapters, comic moments, and real-kid characters and situations make the Andy Shane stories perfect for beginning readers and listeners.
In Andy Shane and the Very Bossy Dolores Starbuckle, Andy dreads school, where all Dolores does is tattle on him, correct him, or attempt to outshine him in every area. With Granny's help, however, Andy stands up to Dolores in a way that empowers him and transforms her.
Then, Andy is forced to attend Dolores's birthday party in Andy Shane and the Pumpkin Trick. But when he helps track down the tricksters who broke her prized pumpkins, he discovers that Dolores might not be so bad after all.
With insight and humor, these endearing stories present characters who young readers will easily champion.
©2009 Jennifer Richard Jacobson (P)2009 Live Oak Media
Paper Things
Summary
When forced to choose between staying with her guardian and being with her big brother, Ari chose her big brother. There's just one problem - Gage doesn't actually have a place to live. When Ari's mother died four years ago, she had two final wishes: that Ari and her older brother, Gage, would stay together always, and that Ari would go to Carter, the middle school for gifted students. So when eighteen-year-old Gage decided he could no longer live with their bossy guardian, Janna, Ari knew she had to go with him - even though she'd miss baking cookies with Janna and curling up to watch HGTV. What Ari didn't realize was that Gage didn't have an apartment yet. And now, two months later, he still doesn't. He and Ari have been "couch surfing," staying with Gage's friend in his tiny apartment, crashing with Gage's girlfriend and two roommates, and if necessary, sneaking into a juvenile shelter to escape the cold Maine nights. But all of this jumping around makes it hard for Ari to keep up with her schoolwork, never mind her friendships, and getting into Carter starts to seem impossible. Will Ari be forced to break one of her promises to Mama? Told in an open, authentic voice, this nuanced story of hiding in plain sight may have listeners thinking about homelessness in a whole new way.
©2015 Jennifer Richard Jacobson, original book published by Candlewick Press (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
The Dollar Kids
Summary
When a family buys a house in a struggling town for just one dollar, they’re hoping to start over - but have they traded one set of problems for another? Twelve-year-old Lowen Grover is still reeling from the shooting death of his best friend, Abe, when he stumbles across an article about a small town giving away homes for just one dollar. It seems like the perfect escape from Flintlock and all of the awful memories associated with the city - and to his surprise, his mum, dad, and older brother are all onboard. Only his sister, Anneth, is reluctant to leave her friends and the familiarity (and amenities!) of Flintlock, but with the rest of the family anxious to do what’s best for grief-stricken Lowen, her protests fall on deaf ears. But is the Dollar Program too good to be true? The homes are in much worse shape than it appeared from the pictures, and the locals aren’t exactly welcoming. Some of them even seem to resent the so-called Dollar Families. Will Millville and the dollar house be the answer to the Grovers’ troubles? From the author of Small as an Elephant and Paper Things comes a heart-tugging novel about guilt and grief, family and friendship, and, above all, community.
©2018 Jennifer Richard Jacobson, original book published by Candlewick Press (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Small as an Elephant
Summary
When 11-year-old Jack Martel crawls out of his pup tent on the first morning of his camping trip with his mom in Acadia National Park, he notices right away that something isn’t right. Where is his mom’s tent, and their rental car? And where is his mom? Any other kid might panic, might even go to the police. But Jack isn’t like other kids. And his mom isn’t like other moms. Jack knows that it’s up to him to find his mom before someone figures out what’s happened and separates them forever. But finding his mom in the state of Maine isn’t the same as finding her in their neighborhood back in Boston. With nothing but a small plastic elephant to keep him company, Jack begins his search, starting with all the places they’d planned to visit together. But as the search drags on, a dark thought plagues him: once he finds his mom, will he ever be able to forgive her?
©2011 Jennifer Richard Jacobson, original book published by Candlewick Press (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Excerpt from The Magician's Elephant © 2009 by Kate DiCamillo. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.