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    The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found
    The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found
    The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found
    Audiobook5 hours

    The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found

    Written by Karina Yan Glaser

    Narrated by Robin Miles

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    New York Times best-seller Karina Yan Glaser brings everyone’s favorite Harlem family back in this poignant
    fourth novel in the “delightful and heartwarming” (New York Times Book Review) Vanderbeekers series.

    When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping
    Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon—and making sure the mysterious
    person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat. But when they discover the
    true identity of the person making a home in the garden’s shed, their world turns upside
    down. As they attempt to make the world a better place, Isa, Jessie, Oliver, Hyacinth, and
    Laney learn what it means to care for someone in an impossible situation.

    Return to 141st Street with the biracial Vanderbeeker family as they show how friends
    can be family and families can be unconventional in this heartfelt novel that will have you
    cheering to the end.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 15, 2020
    ISBN9781980098799
    Author

    Karina Yan Glaser

    Karina Glaser is the New York Times bestselling author of the Vanderbeekers series and A Duet for Home. A former teacher as well as employee of New York City’s largest provider of transitional housing for the homeless, Karina is now a contributing editor at Book Riot. Karina lives in Harlem, New York City, with her husband, two children, and assortment of rescue animals. One of her proudest achievements is raising two kids who can’t go anywhere without a book. Visit her at karinaglaser.com. 

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    • 5/5
      Pretty good book and I recommend it for 8-11 years. WARNING SPOILER ALERT! If you want to know a little more about it than keep reading this. There is some sad parts but there is also happy parts.it is the fourth book of the series and there some very dramatic parts to. Please rate this helpful!!!!!!!?

      4 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Best of the series... I cried a lot... Funny, cute story with important messages for the young audience.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Love the Adventure of the Vanderbeekers. What a book to listen on holiday

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    • 4/5
      I don’t like it because mr. Jeet dies signed molly backe
    • 5/5
      I love this book ! Garrett .
    • 5/5
      This was a great book that I would (and do) recommend for kids of all ages! This one gets sad at a few points though so for this book I would recommend ages 8+. I hope you found this helpful and enjoy the book!
    • 5/5
      Excellent, like the whole series, but with a tinge of sadness. Cant wait for #5!
    • 5/5
      Another fantastic installment of the Vanderbeekers series! The Vanderbeekers #4, The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found by Karina Yan Glaser, dealt with some tough issues (illness and homelessness) in such a kind and heartfelt way with everyone rallying around to support one another. The family of 7 (and their neighbors) you can't help but love also had their share of Fall adventures to contend with (Halloween, the NYC marathon, shyness, another homecoming dance).I can't wait to see the Vanderbeekers continue to grow up along with the next book in the series.
    • 4/5
      The Vanderbeeker family returns in this fourth adventure, facing some of the toughest challenges they have ever experienced with love, understanding and creativity. As the Vanderbeeker's neighbor, friend and landlord, Mr. Biedermann, prepares for his first New York Marathon, the children discover that the homeless MP ("mysterious person") using the shed at their community garden is someone they all know and love. While trying to find a solution to this problem, the children, their parents, and their wider circle of friends must also confront a devastating loss, in the form of the death of beloved Mr. Jeet. Other, more everyday experiences are also explored, from schoolgirl misunderstandings to Halloween races, but the narrative focuses primarily on these two main story-lines, touching upon issues of homelessness, mental illness, and loss. In the end, the loving bonds of community that the Vanderbeekers have built around them lead both to healing, and to a solution to a very thorny problem...I found The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found every bit as heartwarming and emotionally satisfying as its predecessors, and raced through it in a single reading session. Although it touched upon some very serious issues, and was often quite poignant - I found myself tearing up on more than one occasion, while reading - it still managed to maintain the sense of humor and feeling of joy to be found in previous installments of the series. There are times, reading Karina Yan Glaser's books, that I feel as if I am seeing the world as it ought to be, rather than as it truly is. Perhaps this feeling is partly owing to the fact that I myself do not belong to such a close-knit community as the one depicted here, and wonder if it is too good to be true. Then again, perhaps I simply encounter the goodhearted wholesomeness exemplified by the Vanderbeekers and their circle more frequently in vintage children's fare, and am therefore surprised to find it in a current novel. Whatever the case may be, there is no doubt that Glaser manages to be contemporary and current, in the best possible way, with a diverse and appealing cast of characters, but to also retain an almost old-fashioned sense of the goodness of people, and of our culture. Highly recommended, to anyone who has read the previous three books about the Vanderbeekers and their wonderful world on 141st Street.