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An Odyssey Honor Audiobook

In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.

Don't miss the audiobook, read by Elizabeth Acevedo, the beloved author and narrator of The Poet X, winner of an Odyssey Honor and an AudioFile Earphones Award winner. 

Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people…

In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash.

Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.

And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other. 

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Acevedo, Elizabeth Narrator, Author
Marte, Melania-Luisa Narrator
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9780062882769
9780063011816
9780062882783

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Whether they're writing in poetry or in prose, both Reynolds and Acevedo create characters whose voices are so distinct, vivid, and convincing that readers will feel like they know them. -- Rebecca Honeycutt
Complicated family relationships and young people facing difficult obstacles are frequent themes in both Elizabeth Acevedo and Angela Johnson's moving own voices books for teens. Johnson also writes books for children. -- Stephen Ashley
In Gabby Rivera and Elizabeth Acevedo's own voices novels, complex young Latinas receive life-changing opportunities that come with unexpected challenges. Both authors' moving coming-of-age works center on cultural identity and the search for self. Dominican American Acevedo's books are culturally diverse; Bronx-born Puerto Rican Rivera's books are LGBTQIA diverse. -- Kaitlin Conner
In addition to writing for adults, poets Safia Elhillo and Elizabeth Acevedo pen moving novels-in-verse for teens. Self-expression, faith, family, and young womanhood are common facets of their coming-of-age, own voices narratives. -- Basia Wilson
Frequently written in verse, both Elizabeth Acevedo and Nikki Grimes' own voices books for teens star diverse characters who use language and writing to help navigate difficult situations in their lives. Grimes also writes for younger readers. -- Stephen Ashley
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Booklist Review

Acevedo returns to the novel in verse format for this story of two teenage sisters separated by a secret, an ocean, and their father. Papi kept one family in New York and another in the Dominican Republic--something New Yorker Yahaira had an inkling of, but is a complete surprise to Dominican Camino. After Papi's plane crashes on his way to spend the summer with Camino, his secret fully emerges, and the sisters struggle with their complicated grief and uncertain--but now connected--future. The girls find that for all their differences, they share features and family traits. Acevedo's free verse poems for each girl share an easy cadence and thoughtfulness, yet each girl's perspective is clear: Camino is strong but fearful of the dangers that threaten her life and hopes; Yahaira's anger is palpable, but so is her tenderness and love for her girlfriend Dre. In a later section, the perspectives blend into each other as the girls meet, bond, and become true sisters. Memorable for its treatment of grief, depiction of family ties, and lyrical strength, expect a well-deserved high demand.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Acevedo's multi-award-winning The Poet X (2018) established her as a must-read author, and her many fans and admirers will be eager to read this.

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Publisher's Weekly Review

At nearly 17, Camino Rios lives in the Dominican Republic with her aunt, where she dreams of attending medical school at Columbia University, near her father, whom she only sees for a few months each year. Skilled chess player Yahaira Rios, 16, lives with her Dominican parents in New York City, next door to her girlfriend, Dre. When Yahaira's father leaves for his annual summer trip to the D.R., the plane crashes, leaving no survivors and upending the lives of Yahaira and his other daughter, Camino. In the months following the crash, the girls, previously unknown to each other, discover their sisterhood--and their father's double life--and must come to terms with difficult truths about their parents. Returning to verse, Acevedo subtly, skillfully uses language and rhythm to give voice to the sisters' grief, anger, and uncertainty; Camino's introspective openness; and Yahaira's tendency toward order and leadership. Raw and emotional, Acevedo's exploration of loss packs an effective double punch, unraveling the aftermath of losing a parent alongside the realities of familial inheritance. Ages 14--up. Agent: Ammi-Joan Paquette, Erin Murphy Literary. (May)■

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Horn Book Review

In this sharp and compelling verse novel (a 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book honoree), sixteen-year-old Camino Rios lives in the Dominican Republic and dreams of medical school. Sixteen-year-old Yahaira Rios is a native New Yorker who plays competitive chess. Although the two girls share a last name, they are strangers. But after flight 1112 from New York City to the Dominican Republic crashes with the man they each called Papi on board, Camino and Yahaira learn of each others existence. In two distinct voices, Acevedo (The Poet X, rev. 3/18; With the Fire on High, rev. 5/19) explores the rich inner lives of the sudden half-sisters as they grapple with their complicated feelings about their father and the secrets he kept. Yahaira narrates in stirring non-rhyming couplets; Camino in intense three-line stanzas. Moving toward their inevitable meeting, Yahaira feels like a spool of thread / thats been dropped to the ground...rolling undone / from the truth of this thing, while Camino wonders, If I find her / would I find a breathing piece / of myself I had not known / was missing? An authors note further explains the title of and inspiration for the novel, which was influenced by the tragic crash of flight AA587 out of New York that killed more than 260 people, most of them of Dominican descent, shortly after September 11, 2001. Jennifer Hubert Swan July/August 2020 p.130(c) Copyright 2020. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Kirkus Book Review

Tackles family secrets, toxic masculinity, and socio-economic differences with incisive clarity and candor. Camino Rios lives in the Dominican Republic and yearns to go to Columbia University in New York City, where her father works most of the year. Yahaira Rios, who lives in Morningside Heights, hasn't spoken to her dad since the previous summer, when she found out he has another wife in the Dominican Republic. Their lives collide when this man, their dad, dies in an airplane crash with hundreds of other passengers heading to the island. Each protagonist grieves the tragic death of their larger-than-life father and tries to unravel the tangled web of lies he kept secret for almost 20 years. The author pays reverent tribute to the lives lost in a similar crash in 2001. The half sisters are vastly different--Yahaira is dark skinned, a chess champion who has a girlfriend; Camino is lighter skinned, a talented swimmer who helps her curandera aunt deliver neighborhood babies. Despite their differences, they slowly forge a tenuous bond. The book is told in alternating chapters with headings counting how many days have passed since the fateful event. Acevedo balances the two perspectives with ease, contrasting the girls' environments and upbringings. Camino's verses read like poetic prose, flowing and straightforward. Yahaira's sections have more breaks and urgent, staccato beats. Every line is laced with betrayal and longing as the teens struggle with loving someone despite his imperfections. A standing ovation. (Verse novel. 14-18) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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Booklist Reviews

*Starred Review* Producers/directors, take note: this is how to effectively record an audiobook with more than a single narrator. Here, Marte reads Camino's chapters, while Acevedo picks up Yahaira's. For chapters featuring both girls, Marte and Acevedo take turns in dialogue. When their words overlap, both narrators speak together. Simple as that sounds, multi-voiced casts rarely achieve the authentic accuracy listeners are gifted here. Indeed, Acevedo's latest is remarkable, an affecting back-and-forth between two teens whose lives are irreparably altered when a Dominican Republic-bound flight crashes, leaving no survivors. Waiting for a father who never arrives is Camino, raised by her aunt in the DR while her father works in NYC nine months of the year. Waiting for a father who will never return is New Yorker Yahaira, whose silence toward him over the past year can now never be broken. Born almost 17 years ago, just two months apart to different mothers in separate countries, Camino and Yahaira are suddenly connected by the same dead man, and in need of navigating brave new futures. Marte, a writer/performer of Black Dominican descent, makes her audiobook debut with a pitch-perfect performance, agilely balancing Camino's vulnerability, tenacity, admiration, disappointment, and hope. Once again, Dominican American YA powerhouse Acevedo (Poet X 2018) ciphers her printed poetry into aural alchemy, voicing angry, frustrated, longing, searching Yahaira. Together, the dynamic duo transforms strangers into sisters. Grades 8-12. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews.

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