Try free for 30 days
-
Abuela, Don't Forget Me
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy Now for $16.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also picked
-
Punching Bag
- By: Rex Ogle
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate, fierce mother; and charts the trajectory of his stepdad’s anger. Hovering over Rex’s story is the talismanic presence of his unborn baby sister.
-
Road Home
- By: Rex Ogle
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Here, Rex tells the story of his coming out and his father’s rejection of his identity, navigating abuse and survival on the streets. Road Home is a devastating and incandescent reflection on Rex’s hunger for food, for love, and for a place to call home, completing the trilogy of memoirs that began with the award-winning Free Lunch.
-
Freewater
- By: Amina Luqman-Dawson
- Narrated by: Cary Hite, Sisi Aisha Johnson
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Under the cover of night, 12-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there’s no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp.
-
Stamped (For Kids)
- Racism, Antiracism, and You
- By: Sonja Cherry-Paul - adaptation, Rachelle Baker - Illustrator, Ibram X. Kendi, and others
- Narrated by: Pe'Tehn Raighn-Kem Jackson
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This chapter-book edition of the number-one New York Times best seller by luminaries Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds is an essential introduction to the history of racism and antiracism in America.
-
American Murderer
- The Parasite That Haunted the South
- By: Gail Jarrow
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Tiny creatures lurk in the warm soil of the American South, waiting to attack a human victim. Once they invade through bare skin, the parasites travel deep into the gut of the unsuspecting host, where they suck blood like a vampire. Hookworm takes center stage in YALSA-winner Gail Jarrow’s third book of the Medical Fiascoes series. In this exciting medical mystery, she reveals how a parasite slowly drained the energy and life from millions of southerners. Can early twentieth-century scientists and doctors uncover its secrets, fight back, and cure the victims?
-
Hey, Kiddo
- By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
- Narrated by: Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Jeanne Birdsall, Richard Ferrone, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery - Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents - two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along. Only as a teenager can Jarrett begin to piece together the truth of his family.
-
Punching Bag
- By: Rex Ogle
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate, fierce mother; and charts the trajectory of his stepdad’s anger. Hovering over Rex’s story is the talismanic presence of his unborn baby sister.
-
Road Home
- By: Rex Ogle
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Here, Rex tells the story of his coming out and his father’s rejection of his identity, navigating abuse and survival on the streets. Road Home is a devastating and incandescent reflection on Rex’s hunger for food, for love, and for a place to call home, completing the trilogy of memoirs that began with the award-winning Free Lunch.
-
Freewater
- By: Amina Luqman-Dawson
- Narrated by: Cary Hite, Sisi Aisha Johnson
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Under the cover of night, 12-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there’s no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp.
-
Stamped (For Kids)
- Racism, Antiracism, and You
- By: Sonja Cherry-Paul - adaptation, Rachelle Baker - Illustrator, Ibram X. Kendi, and others
- Narrated by: Pe'Tehn Raighn-Kem Jackson
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This chapter-book edition of the number-one New York Times best seller by luminaries Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds is an essential introduction to the history of racism and antiracism in America.
-
American Murderer
- The Parasite That Haunted the South
- By: Gail Jarrow
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Tiny creatures lurk in the warm soil of the American South, waiting to attack a human victim. Once they invade through bare skin, the parasites travel deep into the gut of the unsuspecting host, where they suck blood like a vampire. Hookworm takes center stage in YALSA-winner Gail Jarrow’s third book of the Medical Fiascoes series. In this exciting medical mystery, she reveals how a parasite slowly drained the energy and life from millions of southerners. Can early twentieth-century scientists and doctors uncover its secrets, fight back, and cure the victims?
-
Hey, Kiddo
- By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
- Narrated by: Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Jeanne Birdsall, Richard Ferrone, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery - Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents - two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along. Only as a teenager can Jarrett begin to piece together the truth of his family.
-
We Deserve Monuments
- By: Jas Hammonds
- Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Seventeen-year-old Avery Anderson is convinced her senior year is ruined when she's uprooted from her life in DC and forced into the hostile home of her terminally ill grandmother, Mama Letty. The tension between Avery’s mom and Mama Letty makes for a frosty arrival and unearths past drama they refuse to talk about. Every time Avery tries to look deeper, she’s turned away, leaving her desperate to learn the secrets that split her family in two.
-
-
Stunning
- By Anonymous User on 07-04-2023
-
Accountable
- The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
- By: Dashka Slater
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as “edgy” humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew. Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account’s discovery. Not the girls targeted by the posts. Not the boy who created the account. Not the group of kids who followed it. Not the adults—educators and parents—whose attempts to fix things too often made them worse.
-
Attack of the Black Rectangles
- By: A.S. King
- Narrated by: Pete Cross, Gretchen Bender, Amy Sarig King, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil’s Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged. Someone in his school is trying to prevent kids from reading the full story. But who? Even though his unreliable dad tells him to not get so emotional about a book (or anything else), Mac has been raised by his mom and grandad to call out things that are wrong. He and his friends head to the principal's office to protest the censorship.
-
Sunshine
- By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
- Narrated by: Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Jaiden Meltzer, Xavier Krosoczka, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going into it, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such a serious 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 people through the most troubled of times.
-
Huda F Are You?
- By: Huda Fahmy
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old town, Huda knew exactly who she was: She was the hijabi girl. But in Dearborn, everyone is the hijabi girl. Huda is lost in a sea of hijabis, and she can't rely on her hijab to define her anymore. She has to define herself. So she tries on a bunch of cliques, but she isn't a hijabi fashionista or a hijabi athlete or a hijabi gamer.
-
Hands
- By: Torrey Maldonado
- Narrated by: Torrey Maldonado
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Trev would do anything to protect his mom and sisters, especially from his stepdad. But his stepdad’s return stresses Trev—because when he left, he threatened Trev’s mom. Rather than live scared, Trev takes matters into his own hands, literally. He starts learning to box to handle his stepdad. But everyone isn’t a fan of his plan, because Trev’s a talented artist, and his hands could actually help him build a better future.
-
Class Act
- By: Jerry Craft
- Narrated by: Nile Bullock, Jesus Del Orden, Guy Lockard, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Eighth-grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying “You have to work twice as hard to be just as good”. His grandmother has reminded him his entire life. But what if he works 10 times as hard and still isn’t afforded the same opportunities that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted? To make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids.
-
The Supernatural Society
- By: Rex Ogle
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When all the town pets (including Fitz) go missing, Will suspects there’s something sinister going on. So he joins forces with outcast Ivy and super-smart Linus to uncover the ancient secrets of East Emerson. Besides, nothing bad could happen when three sixth graders team up against monsters, magic, myths, and mad science . . . right?
-
Rez Ball
- By: Byron Graves
- Narrated by: Jesse Nobess
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team—even though he can’t help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team offer to take Tre under their wing, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. This is the first step toward his dream of playing in the NBA, no matter how much the odds are stacked against him.
-
The Fort
- By: Gordon Korman
- Narrated by: Christopher Carley, Michael Crouch, Nick Walther, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The morning after Hurricane Leo rips through the town of Canaan, residents awaken to widespread destruction—power outages, downed branches, uprooted trees, broken windows and damaged roofs. Four eighth-grade friends—Evan, Jason, Mitchell, and CJ—meet to explore the devastation. The tight-knit group is dismayed to find that Evan has brought along a stray—Ricky, who is new to their town and school, and doesn’t have any friends yet.
-
When the Angels Left the Old Country
- By: Sacha Lamb
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In publishing-speak, here's what we at the LQ office sometimes describe as the Queer lovechild of Sholem Aleichem and Philip Roth: Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shtetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young emigrants goes missing, Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her.
-
-
Gorgeous book with delightful characters
- By Kindle Customer on 14-10-2023
-
Unearthing Joy (A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Teaching and Learning)
- By: Gholdy Muhammad
- Narrated by: Melaine Morgan
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this follow-up to Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit—joy—to her groundbreaking instructional model. She defines joy as more than celebration and happiness, but also as wellness, beauty, healing, and justice for oneself and across humanity. She shows how teaching from cultural and historical realities can enhance our efforts to cultivate identity, skills, intellect, criticality, and—indeed—joy for all students, giving them a powerful purpose to learn and contribute to the world.
Publisher's Summary
Rex Ogle’s companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother’s legacy.
In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle’s abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on—to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted, and to offer safety when darkness closed in. Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction, Abuela’s red-brick house in Abilene, Texas, offered Rex the possibility of home, and Abuela herself the possibility for a better life.
Abuela, Don’t Forget Me is a lyrical portrait of the transformative and towering woman who believed in Rex even when he didn’t yet know how to believe in himself.