FREE: AUDIOBOOK-YOLONDA'S GENIUS by CAROL FENNER read by NOVELLA NELSON

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AUDIOBOOK ISBN 0-553-47821-4, 4 CASSETTES
Yolonda is a great big girl and strong for her age, bigger and stronger and smarter than anyone else in the fifth grade. She is cool and streetwise, too, and afraid of no one. It's easy for her to watch out for her little, first-grade brother, Andrew. But their mother, a legal professional and a widow, is concerned about crime and drugs in her children's Chicago school. She moves them all to a smaller and, she hopes, safer town.

Yolonda, at first, is scornful of her new town. And Andrew, who never talks much, is having trouble learning to read. What he loves to do is play on the old harmonica given him as a baby by his father to teeth on and which he's kept blowing ever since. He can imitate any sound he hears, like bacon sizzling, or express any mood he feels, like the freshness of early moring. Yolonda understands that that's the way he "talks." She is convinced Andrew is a true genius with a great musical gift. But on one else believes it - not her mother, nor Andrew's teachers, not even wonderful Aunt Tiny in Chicago. Yolonda sets out to open up adult eyes, a task whose strategies will call on for more than her physical toughness. Her plans crystallize on a visit back to Chicago to enjoy the great annual blues festival with Aunt Tiny.