Stories Come to Life

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Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. 
When Cress FINALLY convinces her mother to allow her to go to a house party with some friends from school, she thinks her life may make a dramatic change for the better. Maybe she will be approached by a magnificent boy who will share a secret world with her. Cress hopes so. Reality is a bit different. Maybe the world view Cress has now that she is barely fourteen years old is actually quite a bit different than what the other girls have at ages sixteen and seventeen. There are many ways to live, and Cress is finding a way that allows her to be authentically herself.
Now, sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life.
Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and there's no better way to relax than to hear Stories Come to Life!
Let me know what you think! Please send an email to me at kluker@marshallpl.org. I'd love to hear from you!

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Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. 
In the first chapter today, Cress is filled with teenage emotion and melancholy. Flowers bloom so fleetingly, the raindrops on the lawn evaporate and disappear, and everything in life seems destined to degrade and disintegrate. Maybe Cress’s emotions come because the young man she loves doesn’t know she exists. Or maybe it is just the blight man was born for. It is Crescent that she mourns for. 
Then in the second chapter, Cress’s dear friend, Honor Gallagher, is back for a quick visit. Yes, Honor is five years older than Cress, but the age difference never seemed to matter back when Cress was twelve and Honor was seventeen. But can things ever really stay the same?
Now, sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life.
Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and there's no better way to relax than to hear Stories Come to Life!
Let me know what you think! Please send an email to me at kluker@marshallpl.org. I'd love to hear from you!

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Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. 
Cress has tentatively reached the upper level of popularity in her high school. So, when a girl who REALLY wants to be Cress’s friend invites her to spend the night at her house, Cress is torn. Should she go and perhaps risk falling from the popularity heights, or could her approval perhaps raise Ina to that coveted level? As in most of Cress’s adventures, things are not always easy to judge from the outside, and Cress has to listen to her heart.
Now, sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life.
Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and there's no better way to relax than to hear Stories Come to Life!
Let me know what you think! Please send an email to me at kluker@marshallpl.org. I'd love to hear from you!

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Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. 
Music lessons? Could Cress really want to take music lessons? All her life (so far) Cress has been decidedly AGAINST music lessons because they would be so dull as compared to hiking or swimming or doing anything outside. But that was before Cress met Mrs. Charlesbois. She is wonderful: elegant and artistic and best of all, interested in Cress. Adult friendships and situations, though, have a complexity Cress doesn’t know if she wants to understand. 
And then Edwin, brave Edwin! He always impresses Cress. Not only does he recite Virgil like a Roman, but he defends Cress’s honor when a bully tries to use his muscles against Edwin’s brains. 
Now, sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life.
Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and there's no better way to relax than to hear Stories Come to Life!
Let me know what you think! Please send an email to me at kluker@marshallpl.org. I'd love to hear from you!

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Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. 
This is the winter that Cress is thirteen years old. Cress is trying to find out what her “trademark” will be at school. Will she be a serious, sweet, and unknown person, or should she find a way to be known as “that Crazy Cress Delahanty”?  Then, later in the season, Cress will be performing in a dance recital. But oh, she is so worried her parents may mispronounce a word or somehow want to participate in the festivities. What would her friend Bernadine (known as Nedra on Fridays) think of her if Mr. and Mrs. Delahanty do something embarrassing?
Now, sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life.
Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and there's no better way to relax than to hear Stories Come to Life!
Let me know what you think! Please send an email to me at kluker@marshallpl.org. I'd love to hear from you!