Monica Hesse has narrated 2 audiobooks on Listento.it by 1 author, with an average listener rating of 3.5★ across 6 ratings. The most-rated is The Girl in the Blue Coat.
The Girl in the Blue Coat
Summary
An extraordinarily gripping audiobook from a bright new voice in YA fiction. Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black-market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the front line when the Germans invaded. She likes to think of her illegal work as a small act of rebellion. But one day Hanneke gets a very unusual request. One of her regular customers asks her to find a girl. A girl who has disappeared from the secret room in her house. A Jewish girl...as she searches for clues Hanneke is drawn into a dangerous web of lies, secrets and mysteries. Can she find the runaway before the Nazis do?
©2016 Monica Hesse (P)2016 Hachette Audio USA
The War Outside
Summary
New from Monica Hesse, the New York Times best-selling and award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat - an "[I]mportant" (New York Times Book Review), "[E]xtraordinary" (Booklist, starred review) novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal. "A must-read for fans of historical fiction." (Ruta Sepetys, number one New York Times best-selling author) It's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado - until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, all because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan. Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a "family internment camp" for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her father, who she knows is keeping something from her. And Margot is doing everything she can to keep her family whole as her mother's health deteriorates and her rational, patriotic father becomes a man who distrusts America and fraternizes with Nazis. With everything around them falling apart, Margot and Haruko find solace in their growing, secret friendship. But in a prison the government has deemed full of spies, can they trust anyone - even each other? Don't miss Monica Hesse's latest historical-fiction masterwork, They Went Left. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2018 Monica Hesse (P)2018 Hachette Audio