

Crash by Jerry Spinelli, read by Jeff Woodman. John "Crash" Coogan has always crashed through life. He's a jock and a bit of a jerk, caring more about clothing labels and sports than anything else, but his favorite pastime is making fun of his dweeby neighbor Penn Webb. Penn is a vegetarian and a pacifist and always seems to go against the grain. While Crash plays football, Penn tries out for the cheerleading team. But as seventh grade goes on, Crash just might find that he and Penn have more in common than he ever thought. I hate to designate anything as being "for boys" or "for girls", but this would be a great book for your reluctant readers. I think it's something middle school boys would definitely identify with and there are lots of items for discussion. It'd be a great book to read or listen to with the whole family and then discuss afterwards. Plus, it's funny and there are lots of sports.
This is what I've been listening to recently... how about you?
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Our library, for some reason, has two copies of the audiobook of Ralph the Magic Rabbit, by Adam Frost, performed by Daniel Hill (BBC), and not that much else, so we tried it, and it was very, very entertaining...
I love your posts about audiobooks, Abby! If anyone would like more summer listening suggestions, stop by my blog Audiobooker http://audiobooker.blogspot.com/ where the June 17th post has two articles that I wrote for my local newspaper, with lots of good listening. I so enjoy your blog, Abby – thanks for sharing with us!
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