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    Paintings from the Cave: Three Novellas
    Paintings from the Cave: Three Novellas
    Paintings from the Cave: Three Novellas
    Audiobook3 hours

    Paintings from the Cave: Three Novellas

    Written by Gary Paulsen

    Narrated by Kevin R. Free, Sarah Grace, Nick Podehl and Jim Bond

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    About this audiobook

    Meet Jake who lives in a neighborhood controlled by street violence and fear. He meets a sculptor across the street, and his eyes are opened to another world. Or Jojo,who's closer to her three dogs than to her foster family. When Jojo tries to help another girl who needs a friend, the dogs know what to do. Or Jamie, Erik, and Grandpa, who make up an unusual family.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 13, 2011
    ISBN9781455824939
    Paintings from the Cave: Three Novellas
    Author

    Gary Paulsen

    GARY PAULSEN (1939 - 2021) wrote nearly two hundred books for young people, including the Newbery Honor Books Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room. 

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    • 3/5
      Three short novels about abused children who try to find themselves. In the first so=tory, a young boy in the ghetto discovers his talent for sculpture, and hopes to escape. In the second, a lonely girl who loves the stray dogs she takes in meets a human friend. In the last, two homeless brothers have only each other, until one starts volunteering at a dog shelter.
    • 5/5
      Three kids ? Jake, Jo, and Jamie ? are from unstable environments. These kids, who basically raise themselves, find joy in art and dogs. While Jake, Jo, and Jamie can?t easily change their worlds, they can find the courage to move forward. Gary Paulsen, the author The Winter Room, Hatchet, and Dogsong, is a Newbery Honor winner.
    • 3/5
      This book contains three novellas about young adults facing tough family situations. I really enjoyed it because it offered a different point of view of childhood, and there was nothing stereotypical about it. Paulsen let us experience emotion as the characters, so it wasn’t as if we were looking down into their lives; we were living right along with them. The first and last story were my favorites, but overall this is worth a read.
    • 5/5
      Grim, moving stories about young people in desperate circumstances finding ways to survive their lots in life. Real, vivid and raw.
    • 4/5
      Heart wrenching, this book will stay with you
    • 3/5
      Three short novels about abused children who try to find themselves. In the first so=tory, a young boy in the ghetto discovers his talent for sculpture, and hopes to escape. In the second, a lonely girl who loves the stray dogs she takes in meets a human friend. In the last, two homeless brothers have only each other, until one starts volunteering at a dog shelter.