Finding Yvonne Audiobook

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• Brandy Colbert has crafted a meaningful and masterful book that explores all of the different ways that we can surprise ourselves. Yvonne's path through family ties, hidden talents, and difficult decisions reveals the hard-won truth of an unforgettable character. I loved this book.

  — p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times}Robin Benway, National Book Award Winner and New York Times bestselling author of Far from the Tree

• A pitch-perfect song of a book about all the ways a heart can break and mend, Finding Yvonne will stay with you long past its final, bittersweet notes.

  — p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times}Elana K. Arnold, author of National Book Award finalist What Girls Are Made Of

• Colbert's excellent ear for dialogue is on display in her latest, and she does a fantastic job of capturing the particular anxieties of a highly intelligent, talented teen at a crossroads, as well as the weight of microaggressions about everything from race to sexuality to economic status.

  — Booklist

• Colbert delivers another emotionally layered story.

  — Publishers Weekly

• Readers will be able to relate to the challenges faced by the diverse and realistic characters that Colbert has created.

  — School Library Connection

• [Yvonne's] a compelling protagonist, and she'll speak to readers thrown by the lack of certainty in their own futures.

  — Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

• Brandy Colbert further establishes herself as one of contemporary YA's biggest talents in this thoughtful and thought-provoking examination of identity, loyalty, and what it means to live with integrity. Little & Lion is a stunningly good novel.

  — Kiersten White, New York Times bestselling author of And I Darken

• Brandy Colbert takes us on an emotional and gorgeous journey with a protagonist who is trying to figure out where she fits in with her family as well as in the world. A book full of overwhelming love and courage.

  — Sara Farizan, author of Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

• * "This superbly written novel teems with meaningful depth, which is perfectly balanced by romance and the languorous freedom of summer.

  — Booklist, starred review

• * "A moving, diverse exploration of the challenges of growing up and the complicated nature of loyalty.

  — School Library Journal, starred review

• * "Colbert sensitively confronts misconceptions about mental illness, bisexuality, and intersectional identity.... A vibrantly depicted Los Angeles.

  — Kirkus Reviews, starred review

• * "From the threads of love and romance, to redefining family life, readers of all walks of life will find an entry point to this title.

  — Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review

• A moving and well-realized examination of secrecy, trust, and intimacy.

  — Publishers Weekly

• Hand [Little & Lion] to readers who like thoughtful, edgy stories with no easy answers.

  — VOYA

• With compelling honesty, Colbert portrays Suzette's evolving understanding of her sexuality, Lionel's longing for self-sufficiency alongside the challenges of his mental illness, and the difficulty of shifting familial relationships.

  — Horn Book